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DJ DJ
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9 years ago
Describe how the widespread availability of multi-core processors effects operating systems.

This is for my computing programming course
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9 years ago
Multi-core machines can actually execute multiple processes simultaneously, rather than merely multiprocessing to give the illusion of multiple CPUs.  Multi-core operating systems must schedule and dispatch processes on such machines, and coordinating access to shared resources becomes a more challenging problem for these systems.
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