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Higher computing help!!

Stuck on these two questions:

Name and describe 4 measures of performance

and....

A microcomputer has a 24-bit address bus and a 16-bit data bus. It also has a control bus. Calculate the number of addresses available to the microcomputer?

Thatnks in advance for any help :smile: :smile:
Original post by Derry Rhumba
Name and describe 4 measures of performance

Venue size, ticket price, ... wait, what?

I'm going to guess this is looking for something like MIPS, FLOPS, clock frequency, and another thing. Benchmarking, perhaps. I can't remember exactly what they wanted, but I vaguely remember this being the sort of nonsense they wanted you to churn out.

A microcomputer has a 24-bit address bus and a 16-bit data bus. It also has a control bus. Calculate the number of addresses available to the microcomputer?


Well, its addresses are obviously 24-bit - how many numbers can you store in 24 bits? (Every other piece of information there is a red herring.)

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