Monoprogramming

In the simplest case of single-user system everything was easy as at a time there was just one process in memory and no address translation was done by the operating system dynamically during execution. Protection of OS (or part of it) can be achieved by keeping it in ROM. We can also have a separate OS address space only accessible in supervisor mode as shown in Figure. The user can employ overlays if memory requirement by a program exceeds the size of physical memory. In this approach only one process at a time can be in running state in the system. Example of such system is MS-DOS which is a single tasking system having a command interpreter. Such an arrangement is limited in capability and performance.

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Monoprogramming