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COMP 101 ASSIGNMENT ONE

1. Discuss major developments in the 5th Generation computers

2. Distinguish between 2nd and 3rd generation Computers

3. Explain the characteristics of 1st generation computers


4. What is an operating system

5. Convert the following decimal numbers into their Binary format (i) 13975 (ii) 1591 (iii) 200

6. Convert the following Binary numbers into their Decimal equivalents. (i) 11110111
(ii)10101010

7. Salvado has a flash disk of 1.5GB and wants to store music files of 950kbs each. How many file
will he be able to store on his flash disk?

8. Discuss some of the differences between super computers and mainframe computers.
9. Briefly describe the roles of the data bus and the address bus within the central processing unit
10. State one benefit of increasing the width of the data bus
11. State one benefit of increasing the width of the address bus
12. Explain the importance of the system clock
13. 1. What is the largest number that can be held in 8 bits?
14. Convert the following binary numbers to decimal
a) 0011 b) 0110 c) 1010 d) 01000001
15. Convert the following decimal numbers to binary
a) 50 b) 75 c) 250 d) 67
16. Performa the following binary calculations
a) 0110 + 0101 b) 1111 – 1010 c) 0101 * 1101 d) 1010101 / 0101
5. Convert the following decimal numbers to hexadecimal a) 19 b) 45 c) 77 d) 101

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