To compete with the newly invented printing press, a medieval monastery decided to

mass$-$produce handwritten paperback books by assembling a vast number of scribes in

a huge hall. The head monk would then call out the first word of the book to be pro$-$

duced and all the scribes would copy it down. Then the head monk would call out the

second word and all the scribes would copy it down. This process was repeated until

the entire book had been read aloud and copied. Which of the parallel processor sys$-$

tems discussed in Sec. $2\mathrm{.}1\mathrm{.}6$ does this system resemble most closely?

As one goes down the five$-$level memory hierarchy discussed in the text, the access