Lecture%202%20review

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Lecture 2 review

• What do we mean by concurrency?
• What are the benefits of concurrency?
• What are the issues related to concurrency?
• Protection, coordination, and overheads
• What is a process?
• How is concurrency supported in a computing
  system?

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• What is the major difference between program and
  process?
• What is process context?
• What is the difference between syscall and call
  instructions?
• How is a system call handled?