Question: Consider a computer with a 256-byte address space and a two-way 32-byte set associative cache. The computer word size is a byte, each cache line

Consider a computer with a 256-byte address space and a two-way 32-byte set associative cache. The computer word size is a byte, each cache line contains four bytes, and each cache four lines. If the cache is initially empty and the following sequence of hexadecimal addresses is read, show the corresponding sequence of hits and misses. 

48, 0C, 48, 4C, 5C, 3A, 20, 21, 22, 24, 81, 49, 30, 34, 27, 3E, 24, 28, 2C, 40

48, 0C, 48, 4C, 5C, 3A, 20, 21, 22, 24, 81, 49, 30, 34, 27, 3E, 24, 28, 2C, 40

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