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Most compression algorithms have a corresponding ____________________ algorithm that restores compressed data to its original or nearly original state.

Until the 1990s, scaling up was almost always a more cost-effective strategy to increase available computer power because communication between computers was extremely slow compared with communication between a single computer’s components.

​In a magneto-optical drive, the laser polarity shift used in reading is known as the “____________________ effect.”

If the CPU is idle while a device completes an access request, the CPU cycles that could have been (but weren’t) devoted to instruction execution are called ____.

The physical structure of a storage device’s read/write mechanism and storage medium determines the ways in which data can be accessed.

HTH switching time is the most important component of access time.

​A system bus connects computer system components, including the CPU, memory, storage, and I/O devices.

The ____ states that when multiple resources are required to produce something useful, adding more of a single resource produces fewer benefits.

​A(n) ____________________ is one concentric circle of a platter, or the surface area that passes under a read/write head when its position is fixed.

When the CPU is the focus of all computer activity, all other devices are ____.