... -bit addressing (instead of 16-bit) allowing it to make more efficient use of disk space and have much larger disk partitions. USB . Universal Serial Bus, for easy connection to hardware devices. IEEE 1394 . A High Performance Serial Bus to transport high bandwidth data between computers and electronic products, such as digital camcorders, and VCRs. MMX . Takes advantage of the Multimedia Extension (MMX ... addressed. Microsoft did this in 1999 with the release of Windows 98 Second Edition, or Win98SE. This upgrade to Windows 98 included bug fixes and enhancements, which incorporated Win...

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... faster then kernel-space threads the time difference seems to be negligible (Walton). Linux (version 2 and above) supports symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) architecture in which multiple processors share a single memory and bus interface within a single computer. Parallel processing is used to speed up the execution of a program by dividing the program into multiple fragments each on its own processor. Within SMP a group ... smaller network configurations, SMP was not much of an issue. Interrupt Handling: The Linux system uses interrupts to transfer control to the interrupt service routin...

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