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| A1: | What conflicts would result if these principal structures were visible? |
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| A2: | How many different buses are there on a typical "IBM-compatible" PC? Does the same software run on these machines with different buses? |
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| A3: | 37. |
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| A4: | Is a human memory addressed by storage locations or by contents? |
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| A5: | 16; 0 … 15. |
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| A6: | At least 17 bits are needed. |
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| A7: | Play the role of the computer, following the process of fetching and executing an instruction. |
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| A8: | Every instruction could contain the address of the next instruction. |
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| A9: | 16 TiB; 1 PiB. |
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| A10: | 46. |
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| A11: | Perhaps first compute 96 ln 2. |
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| A12: | There are four information units and at least five data types for the Itanium architecture discussed in this chapter. |
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| A13: | Consider, by analogy, whether the decimal numbers 5 x 102 and 5.00 x 102 express the same thing. |
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| A14: | 40200000; 40266666. |
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| A15: | Are the representations the same as for exercise 14? |
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| A16: | 224 1. |
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| A17: | Consider the difference between a byte stream and integers represented by more than 8 bits. |
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| A18: | Use the table provided. |
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| A19: | 124F. |
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| A20: | What happens if you subtract 0x30 from the code? |