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Difference between computer architecture and computer organization?

Asked By: ashish kumar gupta | Asked On: Nov 1st, 2006

Answered by: ali on: Apr 6th, 2013

THE distinction b/w computer organization and computer architecture

Answered by: harpinder mahal on: Oct 22nd, 2011

1.The architecture indicates its hardware whereas the organization reveals its performance.
2.for designing a computer, its architecture is fixed first and then its organization is decided.

Logical & physical address

Asked By: mayur1 | Asked On: Feb 20th, 2010

How does operating system work with logical & physical address?

Answered by: mohitdns on: Mar 20th, 2013

As per My understanding, Physical address is the main unique address & logical address is that understood by Computer.
We can take the example of LAN/NIC Card, which having MAC address that is physical address & IP address would be Logical address.

Answered by: cptrjoy on: Jan 16th, 2013

Address that generates by CPU is called logical address and the address of the main memory called physical address

Tool to document business requirements?

Asked By: yadleen | Asked On: Dec 31st, 2012

I/o burst and cpu burst

Asked By: bhaskar tripathi | Asked On: Sep 18th, 2009

What is pre-emptive short job?What is the i/o burst?What is cpu burst?

Answered by: saadat ULLAH on: Oct 11th, 2012

CPU BURST:cpu burst is that when cpu wait for input process and after completion input burst cpu do process on that job... cpu burst is like a car and input output burst is like a pedestrian..bec cpu ...

Answered by: keerthiga on: Sep 27th, 2011

cpu burst is.. process waits for io completion and io burst is .. process waits for cpu completion

Hp-ux and aix in scripting level

Asked By: katakoti | Asked On: Sep 17th, 2012

Is there any differences between hp-ux and aix in scripting level. Any suggestions?

Windows entp. Server 2008

Asked By: vmvedpathak | Asked On: Jun 19th, 2012

In win server 2008, 25 computers connected to your domain, how can I see which user is logging & logout details or how many users are active, or I created one ou, how many members are logging, or logout, I want to give daily report.

Active directory on 2008 server

Asked By: onlyforuk | Asked On: May 26th, 2009

How to configure active directory on 2008 server?

Answered by: mifthahudeen on: May 30th, 2012

Press windows key + r => typr "dcpromo"then it displays the AD configuration and installation wizard . select option like "create a new dc in a new forest" or "create a domain in an existing forest".....

What is nim server in aix?

Asked By: rakesh.keepgoing | Asked On: Dec 29th, 2011

Answered by: Lokesh M on: Feb 10th, 2012

NIM Server stands for Network Installation Management server. It is used for maintenance as well as management of AIX images on LPARs and also on individual stand alone servers. NIM can group instance...

Password protect win XP folder

Asked By: tomsyjose | Asked On: Sep 11th, 2008

How can we password protect a folder in win xp?

Answered by: srimurthyb on: Nov 22nd, 2011

Hai
If i use the first option i am not getting the sharing tab

My OS is Windows XP
it s a multi usable desktop with 4- 5 users in it,

and more ever it says admin password is required ..please suggest me how can i bypass all the thing and protect my folder

Thank you

Answered by: mummanakal on: Aug 20th, 2009

Password Protect Folders in XP Do you share a computer with other users and want some extra security on your folders? There are two ways to password protect a folder built into Windows XP (for other W...

Scheduler and dispatcher

Asked By: abhishek_rawat | Asked On: Feb 25th, 2008

What is the difference between medium term scheduler and dispatcher?

Answered by: Anurag Singh on: Nov 10th, 2011

Fragmentation:- Fragmentation is a problem which is occurs during the partition of memory. When memory size bricked in to several partition using the static or dynamic partitioning technique in the fr...

Answered by: yuvaraj23 on: Aug 31st, 2009

Normally there are 3 types of schedulers are available in operating systems.1. Long term scheduler2. Mid term scheduler3. Short term schedulerThe short term scheduler is also called as the dispatcher ...

What is the difference between UNIX and LINUX?

Asked By: bajjuri.thirupathi | Asked On: Jan 5th, 2007

Answered by: ilushka on: Nov 3rd, 2011

Linux does not have to have a GUI. Unix is an OS built in the 60s and 70s at the Bell Labs and later it gave rise to many Unix-like, or *nix, operating systems. One example is Linux, kernel of which h...

Answered by: AVINASH BANSAL on: Oct 29th, 2011

unix i s created by AT&T BELL LABS AND MIT invited year in 1960's
linux is created by LINUS TORVALDS invited year in 1991
unix is not support processor Intel 386
linux is support processor Intel 386

Need of operating system

Asked By: pavuluri | Asked On: Mar 5th, 2008

What is the need of operating system in computer science?

Answered by: kamaldeev on: Oct 4th, 2011

Need of Operating System: In earlier day’s user had to design the application according to the internal structure of the hardware. Operating System was needed to enable the user to design the applic...

Answered by: Manvender Singh Rathore on: Aug 3rd, 2011

In earlier day’s user had to design the application according to the internal structure of the hardware. Operating System was needed to enable the user to design the application without concerning t...

Sytem calls

Asked By: SHESH KUMAR MISHRA | Asked On: Aug 15th, 2010

What is system calls and what is the term preempted and dispatching in it?

Answered by: jyoti on: Sep 25th, 2011

system calls are the interface for the services provided by the operating system

Answered by: mapunda on: Jul 31st, 2011

signals

Which line will be actiVATed when an output device require attention from cpu?

Asked By: Anoop | Asked On: May 28th, 2007

Answered by: priya on: Sep 4th, 2011

Interrupt line

What are the memory management techniques?

Asked By: Vidya | Asked On: Jun 1st, 2006

Answered by: Ayedero Adebayo on: Aug 31st, 2011

Memory techniques:
1. Fixed partitioning
2. Dynamic partitioning
3. Simple segmentation
4. Virtual memory page
5. Virtual memory segmentation.

Answered by: srinu on: Nov 1st, 2006

 differnt memory mangement techniques r Paging and Segmentation

32 bit and 64 bit os

Asked By: aamirz | Asked On: Oct 5th, 2009

What is the 32bit and 64bit platform os? What is difference between 32bit and 64bit? Which latest os from Microsoft does not suppourt 32bit?

Answered by: Honest Liar on: Aug 20th, 2011

32 bit and 64 bit....its size of instruction code , 64 bit...

Answered by: devraj420 on: Aug 7th, 2010

It depends upon two thing first architecure such as x64, x32 and processor.

Blue screen dump error

Asked By: bathini | Asked On: Sep 13th, 2009

List the possible causes for blue screen dump error in windows operating system?

Answered by: radhakrushna on: Dec 17th, 2010

There could be a lot of problem for Blue Screen Error. There are some answers which I can think:


Miss mathed of driver.
Any Hardware Problem.
Any system file corruption.

But must of the system in my experience I have seen the problem due to RAM issue.

Answered by: avisri on: Feb 21st, 2010

It is considered that the system has RAM problem.

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