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ECE 131 Programming Fundamentals — Exam #1 Fall, 2011 Name: Closed book, closed notes 8 pts. 1. What innovation did John von Neumann introduce in the EDVAC computer: (a) He replaced the vacuum tubes with transistors, and added a really sweet graphics card. (@)tie idea of a stored-program, where the program is stored in computer memory, along with the data it operates on. (c) The first assembly language was introduced for the EDVAC instruction set. (d) A cache memory was added to the memory hierarchy. 10 pts. 2. List the following in decreasing order of access speed (ie., fastest first’ ): cache memory, registers, and virtual memory. reqesters Cacke memory virtusl memory