Research Domain
6 published observations collected under this domain with verified sources.
Virtual memory lets each process work in a private address space while the operating system maps those addresses onto physical memory and storage.
TCP provides a reliable ordered byte stream; UDP exposes datagrams without TCP's delivery guarantees, leaving more responsibility to the application.
A process is an execution environment with its own address space; threads provide concurrent execution within a process and therefore share more state.
The shell is not just a place to type commands; it is a programmable interface to processes, files, streams, and operating-system capabilities.
HTTPS protects the connection between client and server against several classes of network interception, but it does not make the server or application trustworthy by itself.
Before a browser can usually contact a hostname, somebody has to resolve a name to network information. DNS makes that resolution scalable through hierarchy and caching.
