Funny, I don't even have a high school diploma much less a degree of any kind, and I instantly knew it was probably cache weirdness. Do yourself a favor, drop the obsession with formal CS curriculums, they're not a hallmark of competence.
My point is that this isn't an unreasonable thing to expect people to know, as evidenced by it being taught to undergrads. That you know it without a high school diploma strengthens my assertion that it is a reasonable thing to expect people to know.
This isn't about "formal CS curriculum", this is about a passing familiarity of modern computer architecture.
