KISII UNIVERSITY

Subject code: comp 101

Lecturer: Charles Nyatangi Misati
Contact: 0722849625

Student name: Frank Ooko

Contact: 07409575
Reg no: ED12/00104/21

COMP 101
Assignment Answers
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▪ ULSI technology
▪ Development of natural language processing
▪ Advancement in parallel processing
▪ Advancement in superconductor technology
▪ More user friendly interfaces with multimedia features
▪ Availability of very powerful and compact computers at cheaper rates

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▪ 2nd generation computers has high cost direct access storage while 3rd generation
computers has reduced cost of direct access storage
▪ 2nd generation computers use transistors which are relatively smaller to replace the valves
while 3rd generation computers use integrated circuits to replace transistors
▪ 2nd generation computers require frequent maintenance which is costy while in 3rd
generation computers maintenance costs are minimal

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▪ Has low capacity of internal memory; it can only access few files in the memory due to its low
storage capacity
▪ Generate lot of heat, they are not consistent and reliable as the valves tended to fail frequently
▪ Comparatively large in size as compared to present day computers as current are more
advanced and small in size making it to be portable
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▪ A software which acts as an interface between the end user and computer hardware

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I. 11011010010111
II. 110000111
III. 11001000

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a) 247
b) 170

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• 1.5GB to Kbs =1500000kb
1500000/950=
1578 files

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• Super computer’s speed is more than mainframe computers it can execute billions
of instructions within a second
• Mainframe computers are smaller than super computers in size
• Super computers are used for large and complex mathematical computations while
mainframe computers are used as a storage for large database
• Super computers are most costly than mainframe computers
• Super computers have Linux and their variant operating systems while mainframe
computers have multiple operating systems

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• Data bus can is for distributing and managing real time data in intelligent distributed
systems
• Address bus is to identify the address of the location in cache or main memory that
is to be read from or written to

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• Improves the system performance of the computer

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• The wider the address bus, the more memory a computer can use

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• Used to synchronized data transfer at a specific clock pulse in the CPU .A faster System clock
means that the number of instructions executed by the CPU per second is higher
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• 8bits = 256 states

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a. 4
b. 6
c. 10
d. 65

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a) 110010
b) 1001011
c) 111000010
d) 1000011

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a) 11
b) 5
c) 65
d) 17

17(5)
a. (13)16
b. (2D)16
c. (4D)16
d. (65)16