T F 1. Scheduling and memory management are the two OS functions that
are most relevant to the study of computer organization and
architecture.
T F 2. The end user is concerned mainly with the computer’s architecture.
T F 3. The most important system program is the OS.
T F 4. The ABI is the boundary between hardware and software.
T F 5. The OS must determine how much processor time is to be devoted
to the execution of a particular user program.
T F 6. With a batch operating system the user does not have direct access
to the processor.
T F 7. Privileged instructions are certain instructions that are designated
special and can be executed only by the monitor.
T F 8. Uniprogramming is the central theme of modern operating
systems.
T F 9. Both batch multiprogramming and time sharing use
multiprogramming.
T F 10. An interrupt is a hardware-generated signal to the processor.
T F 11. Swapping is an I/O operation.
T F 12. With demand paging it is necessary to load an entire process into
main memory.
T F 13. The x86 includes hardware for both segmentation and
paging.
T F 14. ARM provides a versatile virtual memory system architecture that
can be tailored to the needs of the embedded system designer.
T F 15. Managers are users of domains that must observe the access
permissions of the individual sections and/or pages that make up
that domain.
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