When a higher-priority thread enters the ready state, the operating system generally preempts the currently running thread (an operation known as preemptive scheduling). Depending on the operating system, a steady influx of higher-priority threads could postpone—possibly indefinitely—the execution of lower-priority threads. such indefinite postponement is sometimes referred to more colorfully as________.

a. fasting
b. famine
c. starvation
d. malnourishment

c. starvation

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Associative memory is a name given to several hardware registers that are allocated to each active job whose task is to associate segment and page numbers belonging to the job being processed with their main memory addresses.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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