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____ occurs when memory partitions allocated to a single process or purpose are scattered throughout physical memory.

____ store information about page locations, allocated page frames, and secondary storage space.

Touch position sensing in a touch screen is usually based on ____.

A blocked thread is waiting for an event to occur, such as allocation of a requested resource or correction of an error condition.

​OS ____________________ functions ensure that overall system objectives are achieved efficiently and effectively.

After ____________________, all free partitions form a contiguous block in upper memory.

A(n) ____________________ is a unit of executing software that’s managed independently by the OS and can request and receive hardware resources and OS services.

A reference to a page held in secondary storage is called a(n) ____________________.

The difference between the first address in physical memory and the address of the first process instruction is called the ____.

____________________ scheduling guarantees a minimum amount of CPU time to a thread if the thread makes an explicit real-time scheduling request when it’s created.