Monday, June 30, 2008
SPAIN VICTORY IN EURO
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
China's courage-Tibetan torch relay
Sunday, June 15, 2008
S.Korea Breaks Deal on BEEF Export from US
Friday, June 13, 2008
Stampede at mexico club-13 people feared dead
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
A space mission to Understand climatic change in on the way
Monday, June 9, 2008
Baby Girl Deaths in India-Hurting isssue
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Doctor Suspended
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Inflation in India reaches 11%
According to a well know economic analyst Paranjoy Guha Thakurta "Inflation is like a tax on the poor, but when it is driven by high food prices it's like a double tax because of the amount it makes up of their total expenditure".
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Real Time Clock
A hardware clock which interrupts at fixed interval of real time is essential for the implementation of scheduling policies and for the accounting of resources consumed by various users.We shall assume from thispoint on the machine on which we are building our paper operating system has the hardware facilities outlined above.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Priveleged Instruction set-------Part 2
To distinguish between times when privileged instructions are not allowed,most computers operate in one of two modes,usually known as supervisor mode and user mode.Priveleged instructions can be used only insupervisor mode.The switch from user to supervisor mode is made automatically in any of the following circumstances.
1. A user process calls on the operating system to execute some functions requiring the use of a privileged instructions.Such a call is termed an extracode or supervisor call.
2. An interrupt occurs
3. An error condition occurs in a user process
4. An attempt is made to execute a privileged instructions while in user mode.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Priveleged Instruction set-------Part 1
In order that concurrent processes cannot interfere with each other,Part of the instruction set of the computer must be reserved for use by the operating system only.These privileged instructions perform such functions as
- Enabling and disabling interrupts
- Switching a processor between processes
- accesing registers used by the memory protection hardware
- performing input and output
- halting a central processor.