Imagine that you have been tasked with creating new storage devices like the floppy disk drive or the flash drive. How do you proceed with this plan? Spell it out for us in fine detail.

The book compares a large mainframe computer to a small laptop computer or PDA, and states that the difference between them is one of magnitude, not of concept. Explain the meaning of that statement.

The laptop owned by Siobhan has 8GB of RAM. Her programs utilize an extra 8GB of memory on top of the 2GB her operating system uses. What kind of memory space is being used to do this? Maybe you could explain how this is done.

In this chapter, we'll take a look at three open-source programs that may be used to create virtual machines. Just what do the three of them entail?

Within the next decade, what do you think will be the most important advances in computer hardware? What effect do you think they will have on the prevalence of computers in the office?