Sony and Philips originally developed compact disc (CD) technology for storing and distributing music in the ____ format.

​Multitasking operating systems are not the norm for general-purpose computers.

Average access time is computed under the assumption that two consecutive accesses are sent to ____________________ locations.

Magnetic and optical storage are currently direct competitors.

Optical storage devices store bit values as variations in ____________________.

Operating systems are organized internally into layers.

Image quality improves as pixel size increases.

Electrical current can generate a magnetic field but a magnetic field cannot generate electricity.

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

A ____ is a mathematical compression technique implemented as a program.