Question

Elaborate the following in your own words
a. Difference between symmetric and asymmetric processing
b. advantages and disadvantages of using symmetric and asymmetric processor

Answer 1

In asymmetric multiprocessing, the processors are not treated equally. In symmetric multiprocessing, all the processors are treated equally. All processors communicate with another processor by a shared memory. In asymmetric multiprocessing, process are master-slave.

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