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Describe Round Robin Scheduling
Round robin scheduling is a process by which a computer can multitask. Technically a computer cannot multitask but what round robin does is it gives each task/program a very small time slice of the processor...
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What is immediate addressing?
The immediate addressing mode is when the opcode holds a numerical value. The first operand is the target register and the second operand is the constant numerical value.
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Define resolution in regards to images and how it differs from colour depth
Resolution is the number of pixels in a given unit area (dots per inch). A higher resolution increases the quality of an image. Colour depth is the amount of memory stored by each pixel (number of bits per p...
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Convert the hexadecimal '3E', which represents a 2's compliment binary number, in decimal.
Firstly, represent the 3 16 and E 16 as 2 four bit binary numbers (known as nibbles). Once we have this (0011 and 1110 respectively), we can then combine them back together, into one 8-bit 2's compliment bin...
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What is recursion and why is it useful?
Recursion is when a named block of code (a subroutine or function ) calls itself. We can use recursion to describe some algorithms in very few lines. For example, the following block of pseudocode will recur...
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