When the transistor was invented, back in 1947, the switch it replaced (which was called the vacuum tube) was about as big as one of your thumbs. Now, a state-of-the-art microprocessor (single-chip computer) packs hundreds of millions (and up to 30 billion) transistors onto a chip of...
Answer to: When we call a system call such as a fork in C, we do so with what looks like a C function call. Are we really making a function call?...