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List and briefly define the four main elements of a computer.
Define the two main categories of processor registers.
In general terms, what are the four distinct actions that a machine instruction can
specify?
What is an interrupt?
How are multiple interrupts dealt with?
What characteristics distinguish the various elements of a memory hierarchy?
What is cache memory?
What is the difference between a multiprocessor and a multicore system?
What is the distinction between spatial locality and temporal locality?
In general, what are the strategies for exploiting spatial locality and temporal locality?
Explain briefly how interrupt-driven I/O works.
What are the trade-offs that determine the size of the cache memory.