... for communication among the control unit, ALU, and registers -5- CHAPTER COMPUTER EVOLUTION AND PERFORMANCE A Q 2.1 In a stored program computer, programs are represented in a form suitable for ... TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Introduction Chapter Computer Evolution and Performance .6 Chapter Computer Function and Interconnection 14 Chapter Cache Memory 19 ... systems and advances in I/O processing contribute to the performance ratio A system is only as fast as its slowest link In recent years, the bottlenecks have been the performance of memory modules and...