What important technology has done the most to allow a businesses a chance to compete with larger international companies

Suppose we have a byte addressable computer that has a 32-byte cache with 8 bytes per block. the memory address is 8 bits long. the system accesses memory addresses (in hex) in this exact order: 6e, b9, 17, e0, 4e, 4f, 50, 91, a8, ab, ad, 93, and 94. (a) assuming the cache is direct mapped, what memory addresses will be in cache block 2 after the last address has been accessed? (b) assuming the cache is direct mapped, what is the hit ratio for the entire memory reference sequence given, assuming the cache is initially empty? (c) assuming the cache is 2-way set associative with a lru replacement policy, what is the hit ratio?

Consider the simple 3-station assembly line illustrated below, where the 2 machines at station 1 are parallel, i.e., the product only needs to go through one of the 2 machines before proceeding to station 2.what is the throughput time of this process?

Which argument is not a valid filter? does not equal this quarter filter by cell color all of these are valid filter arguments.