Note: Also review the General Topics and Notes on Topics Discussed in Class (material from before the midterm).
If you can't answer these questions from your notes, ask about them in class or during office hours before the final!
1. What is a "Network PC"?
2. What does a cache do for a computer?
3. What does a buffer do?
4. What is distributed processing?
5. Give an example of a client-server relationship
6. Give an example of parallel processing
7. What are some of the processors, besides the CPU, that may run in parallel in a PC?
8. What is the system bus?
9. If a document is 10,000 words long, and each word averages 6 characters in length, how much disk space will the document require?
10. Why does the number 32767 often pop up in programming? What might happen if you add 1 to 32767?