, Guest! Already a Member? Login or Register. Main Menu Home Articles Links Guestbook About Me Site Map Privacy Policy Login Username: Password: Stay logged in across browser sessions Home > Articles > x86-Concepts x86-Concepts Memory byte Reading/Writing by Yash K.S Segments: Dividing processor (CPU) addressable memory space into smaller protected address space called segments.Segment Selector: A Segment selector is a 16 bit identifier for a segment. It does not... [Read More] Task Basics by Yash K.S Task: A task is a execution unit where CPU can dispatch, execute and suspend. This task can be called in different operating system as a Process, Thread, Fork and other names. All program execution... [Read More] Hyper Threading Basics by Yash K.S Its a new technology from Intel which consists of Two logical processor within the one Physical processor. Even though it is logical processor after booting, Operating system will see this logical as... [Read More] Exception Basics by Yash K.S Exception is an abnormal condition which affects the normal execution flow of a program. In this situation Operating system will take over the execution flow and checks the error type either to Abort... [Read More] Interrupts Basics by Yash K.S During program execution if any other device like mouse, keyboard, etc... Wants some service from CPU, it will generate interrupt and gets the service from CPU.We can connect many peripheral devices... [Read More]