This quiz covers Chapter 8 of Tanenbaum. I will post my answers via the course homepage later that day.
Solutions appear in italics.
A certain RISC architecture uses overlapping register windows for passing parameters between procedures. The machine has 520 registers, and each window has 32 registers, of which 16 are global variables and 8 are local variables. Actually, the 42nd frame would not have room for its output parameters. The following acronyms are used by Flynn in his taxonomy of computer architectures. For each of the following, say what each acronym stands for and give a brief description and example.