CSI chap 1
Name the four important elements of Babbage's Engine that are compoment of today's computer
An input device, memory, a central processing unit, an output device
What logical elements did Charles Sanders Peirce realize electrical switches could emulate in01880
Boolean algebra
What important pastry helped move your job up in the queue in second generation software and what software development made that pastry unnecessary?
Donuts and time-sharing
What company controlled 70% or more of the computer market place in 60s and 70s?
International Bussiness Machines
The Jacquard is important in the history of computing for what innovation?
It worked like a player piano
To day, Microsoft consider its major competition in operating systems to be what system?
Linux operating system
In 1990 what software company dominated the software market and what major product did it sell?
Lotus and Lotus 1-2-3
Marc Andreese released what initial product that made browers widespread?
Mosaic
Leibnitz buit on Pascals work by creating the Leinitz Whell. This device was capable of what kind of calculation to the ones Pascal's could do?
Multiplication and division
Name of three most of critical large-scale developments of the fifth generation of software development from this list
Parallel computing, networking and the multiple-data-stream approach
What magazines can we thank for the first microcomputer?
Popular electronics and Radio Electronics
IBM has some of its origins in what 1980 event?
The US census
The Apple computer became very popular. That was is largest market and wat software it interesting to that market?
The business market and the program VisiCalsc
What important concept did theAltair use, which was borrowed by its competition, including the IBM personal computer?
The machine had an open architecture
IN 1642 Pascal creat a mechanical device with gears and levers. This device was capable of what kind of calculation?
addition and subtraction
In hardware, the next step up from the transistor was the transmitter
false
The US military used ENIAC computer for its intended purpose during World War 2
false
Nam of three most of critical large-scale developments of the fifth generation of software development from this list
parallel computing, networking and the miltiple- data -stream
ARPA was created in response to what major event in world history?
the launch of Sputnik
the important concept is attributed to John Von Neumann?
the stored program concept
What features of transistors made tham superior for computers compared to vacuum tube?
they were cheaper, smaller, and cooler than tubes and lasted longer
