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What are the differences between shell and kernel? Explain layered structure of an operating system. Also explain advantages and disadvantages ofthe layered approach to system design. What is spooling ? Explain the principle of concurrency.
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{10x2:291 What do you understand by critical section? Discuss bakery algorithm. Also show how it satisfies the requirements of a mechanism to control access to oritical section.
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A barber shop consists of a waiting room with n chairs and a barber room with one barber chair. If there are no customers to be served, the'barber goes to sleep. If a customer enters the barbershop and all chairs are occupied, then the customer leaves the shop. If the barber is busy but chairs are availablq then the customer sits in one of the free chairs. If the barber is asleep, the customer wakes up the barber. Write an algorithm for the above synchronization problem using semaphores.
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Explain the following scheduling algorithms
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Multiprocesor Scheduling
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On a system using paging and segmentatioq the virtual address space consists ofup to 16 segments where each segment can be up to 2t6 bytes long. The hardware pages each segment into 512 byte pages. How many bits in the virtual address specify the following?
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