Terminology


No Word Definition
1. Concurrency A property of systems in which several computations are executing simultaneously, and potentially interacting with each other.
2. Deadlock It the situation that two processes need two non-shareable resources to proceed but one process has acquired one resource and the other has acquired the other resource
3. Kernel It is the controlling program that running at all times on the computer.
4. Paging A technique used to implement virtual memory.
5. Process It is an instant of a program in execution.
6. Process Context The information that allows the operating system to resume the execution of a process.
7. Time Sharing It is the sharing of a computing resource among many users by means of multiprogramming and multitasking.
8. Time Slicing It is the most common technique to implement time sharing in operating systems.
9. Virtual Machine It is an imaginary machine that is created by Kernel.