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Signal sets company contracts to deliver one hundred 52-inch plasma high-definition television sets to a new retail customer, tuner tv store, on may 1, with payment to be made on delivery. signal tenders delivery in its own truck. tuner's manager notices that some of the cartons have scrape marks. tuner's owner phones signal's office and asks whether the sets might have been damaged as they were being loaded. signal assures tuner that the sets are in perfect condition. tuner tenders signal a check, which signal refuses, claiming that the first delivery to new customers is always for cash. tuner promises to pay the cash within two days. signal leaves the sets with tuner, which stores them in its warehouse pending its "grand opening sale" on may 15. two days later, tuner's stocker opens some of the cartons and discovers that a number of the sets are damaged beyond ordinary repair. signal claims tuner has accepted the sets and is in breach by not paying on delivery. will signal succeed on these claims? explain.

You need a reliable network for about twenty-five computers that will be distributed across a large building. it is important that the network be relatively cheap. which topology should you use?

Consider a direct-mapped cache with 216 words in main memory. the cache has 16 blocks of 8 words each. it is a word-addressable computer (rather than a byte-addressable computer which we normally discuss). (a) how many blocks of main memory are there? (b) what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache, that is, what are the sizes of the tag, cache block, and block offset fields (if they apply)? (c) to which cache block will the memory reference db6316 map?