1. What factors determine the speed of the computer?

2. Why are buses used in the computer? What can they carry? What is the difference between multipoint bus and point-to-point bus? Explain the term throughput and data width of the bus. 3. What are registers? Where are they located? Why are they needed? Are they temporary orpermanent memory?

3. What are registers? Where are they located? Why are they needed? Are they temporary or permanent memory?

4. Describe common features and differences between serial and parallel interface.

5. What is the disk interface and what does it do?