Consider a computer with 8 Mbytes of main memory and a 128K cache. The cache block size is 4 K. It uses a direct mapping scheme for cache management. How many different main memory blocks can map onto a given physical cache block?

Q. Consider a computer with 8 Mbytes of main memory and a 128K cache. The cache block size is 4 K. It uses a direct mapping scheme for cache management. How many different main memory blocks can map onto a given physical cache block?

A. 2048 B. 256 C. 64 D. 8

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