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ASMP stands for Asymmetric Multiprocessing. It was the style of multiprocessing first supported in DEC's VMS V.3 as well as a number of older systems including TOPS-10 and OS-360. Multiprocessing is traditionally known as the use of multiple concurrent processes in a system as opposed to a single process at any one instant. ... Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering company in the American computer industry. ... VMS is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below: Virtual Memory System (another name for OpenVMS), an operating system Variable message sign, an electronic traffic sign often used on highways Visual Memory System (better known as Visual Memory Unit), a storage device for the Sega Dreamcast console... The TOPS-10 System was a computer operating system from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for the PDP-10 released in 1964 and later on for the DEC-System10. ...
Whereas a symmetric multiprocessor treats all of the processing elements in the system identically, an ASMP system assigns certain tasks only to certain processors. In particular, only one processor may be responsible for fielding all of the interrupts in the system or perhaps even performing all of the I/O in the system. This makes the design of the I/O system much simpler, although it tends to limit the ultimate performance of the system. Symmetric Multiprocessing, or SMP, is a multiprocessor computer architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single shared main memory. ... Intel 80486DX2 microprocessor in a ceramic PGA package A central processing unit (CPU), or sometimes simply processor, is the component in a digital computer that interprets and executes instructions and data contained in software. ... In computer science, an interrupt is an asynchronous signal from hardware or software indicating the need for attention. ... Input/output, or I/O, is the collection of interfaces that different functional units (sub-systems) of an information processing system use to communicate with each other, or to the signals (information) sent through those interfaces. ...
Computer viruses are similar to biological viruses in the fact that they are spread by host contact.
If you compute around with every Mac, DOS or Amiga in town, or if you're a regular customer of online services, you're likely to find yourself with a virus before you can say "gamma globulin." If you have a computing partner, it is safest for you both to keep your computing relationship monogamous.
Computer pheromones are not quite as threatening as computer viruses, since they can only stimulate computers of the same type and only when in proximity with one another.
Time-sharing is an approach to interactive computing in which a single computer is used to provide apparently simultaneous interactive general-purpose computing to multiple users by sharing processor time.
In computer science, a transaction is a group of logical operations that must all succeed or fail as a group.
In computing, a file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them.
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