Homework Help: Information Technology (2 Qs)

Posted by nutz on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 6:10am.

1) Order the following components in order of their speed starting from the fastest, and ending with the slowest: CD, Random Access Memory (RAM), Tape, Cache.

2) A computer system may have an extremely fast process, and extremely fast memory, yet the performance of the computer may be slow. Why?

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Information Technology (2 Qs) - MathMate, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 9:33am
Hints:
1. Cache is the fastest memory (aside from registers, which is not on the list).
2. By what data go from memory to the CPU and vice-versa? Does a human have access directly to the memory?

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