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Computer Architecture - Mips

1 (a) MIPS is a popular metric for rating the performance of a computer. In this context what does MIPS mean? (1 mark) (b) There are three types of MIPS ratings, namely: (i) Native MIPS (ii) Peak MIPS...
21:03 Wed 27th Mar 201312 answers, last by omnipotence 04:57 Mon 13th May 2013
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Computer Architecture - Networking

With reference to the following Telnet session transcript give an explanation of the HTTP protocol: $ telnet www.cis.strath.ac.uk 80 Trying 130.159.196.40... Connected to www.cis.strath.ac.uk. Escape...
20:55 Wed 27th Mar 20137 answers, last by omnipotence 05:00 Mon 13th May 2013
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Computer Architecture - Networking

Describe briefly the chain of events that occur when Alice types the URL for www.google.com into her web browser and that will eventually result in Google’s home page being displayed. Your answer...
20:55 Wed 27th Mar 20131 answer, last by gen2 22:41 Wed 27th Mar 2013
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Computer Architecture - Networking

What are the five layers in the Internet protocol stack? What are the principal responsibilities of each of these layers?...
20:55 Wed 27th Mar 20135 answers, last by omnipotence 05:02 Mon 13th May 2013
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Computer Architecture - Mips

What is the cause of thrashing? How does the system detect thrashing? Once it detects thrashing, what can the system do to eliminate this problem?...
20:54 Wed 27th Mar 20131 answer, last by Old_Geezer 20:56 Wed 27th Mar 2013
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Computer Architecture - Mips

Given five memory partitions of 100 KB, 500 KB, 200 KB, 300 KB, and 600 KB (in order), how would each of the first-fit, best-fit, and worst-fit algorithms place processes of 212 KB, 417 KB, 112 KB,...
20:54 Wed 27th Mar 20135 answers, last by omnipotence 05:07 Mon 13th May 2013
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Computer Architecture - Mips

What are the different methods of passing system call parameters to the operating system? What are their respective advantages and disadvantages?...
20:53 Wed 27th Mar 20132 answers, last by gen2 22:30 Wed 27th Mar 2013
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Computer Architecture - Mips

Two core ideas in operating systems are multiprogramming and timesharing/ multitasking. What does each of these ideas entail? What is the main motivation behind their introduction? (4 marks)...
20:53 Wed 27th Mar 20131 answer, last by gen2 22:49 Wed 27th Mar 2013
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Computer Architecture - C Language

When the program is recompiled with optimisation (the –O3 compiler switch) the programmer discovers that the sumLoop () function runs faster and that the execution time of a sum = sum + increment;...
20:51 Wed 27th Mar 20133 answers, last by omnipotence 05:03 Mon 13th May 2013

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