Hardware Summary
Speed, cost, and size (or distance) in CPUs:
- You can easily get any 2, but not all 3
- Computers use cache as a compromise strategy
The Internet includes LAN’s and WAN’s
- Each contributes unique characteristics
Hardware and software work synergistically
- Our focus will be on software and the Internet
- But understand hardware abilities and limitations
Hardware is a commodity, will that happed to software?