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Review Questions

  1. What are the tasks carried out by the Central Processing Unit
  2. What are the major differences between main memory and external memory?
  3. What is stored in main memory? What is stored in external memory?
  4. How is information represented inside computer systems?
  5. In the following diagram of memory what are the contents of the memory location with the address 98? What is the address of the memory location whose contents are 10100101? What could these contents represent?
       
    100 00010010
    99 10100101
    98 11011101
       

  6. What has to be done before a program can be executed in a computer? How is the program executed by the CPU?
  7. What benefit derives from the `stored program concept'?



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