In a time-sharing operating system, why is system performance so sensitive to the value that is selected for the time slice? Explain what type of system behaviour would occur if the value selected for the time slice were too large. What if it were too small?

What characteristic of long period comets suggest they come directly from the oort cloud?

Consider a direct-mapped cache with 216 words in main memory. the cache has 16 blocks of 8 words each. it is a word-addressable computer (rather than a byte-addressable computer which we normally discuss). (a) how many blocks of main memory are there? (b) what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache, that is, what are the sizes of the tag, cache block, and block offset fields (if they apply)? (c) to which cache block will the memory reference db6316 map?

If joey was single and his taxable income was $9,500, how much would he pay in taxes each year?