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Main Memory is - ANSWER the only storage that the CPU can directly
address
An example of Main Memory is - ANSWER the fetch/execute cycle
What does "addressed" mean? - ANSWER Each byte of memory has a location
expressible with a number or set of numbers
Registers are - ANSWER single words of memory that the CPU can do
arithmetic and logic in, and are used to control memory
This is where the base register is used to hold the lowest memory address a process
can access
The limit register is used to hold the size of the range a process can
access
Accessing registers - ANSWER can be done in a cycle
Accessing main
memory - ANSWER requires a stall
The cache is - ANSWER a smaller, faster space of memory used to hold
, memory closer to the processor
Access to the cache will involve - ANSWER no stall or a small one
Each process must be - ANSWER limited to its memory
Process limitation could be done with - ANSWER base and limit registers
To restrict the setting of base and limit registers to the operating system, we - ANSWER
make them privileged instructions
If a process attempts to access memory below the base or
out of bounds - ANSWER it is killed
Process killing is also known as - ANSWER Segmentation fault, general protection fault,
and access violation
A program when it is on the disk is normally - ANSWER a binary executable file
In order to execute a binary executable file, it's - ANSWER loaded into memory and is
converted into a process
Process swapping means that it - ANSWER can be swapped between disk and memory
more than one time when the process is executing
The input queue is the queue of processes on disk waiting
to get into memory
Bound addresses need to become ________ addresses meaning physical, the ones used
by the actual memory unit - ANSWER
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