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Unit 3 Social Science
Unit 3 Social Science
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1
Xerox the creator of the Palo Alto Reaserch Center originally manufactured what
Printers
Paper
Type Writers
Non electronical office equpiment
2
ALOHAnet became the first radio network able to transmit packets Norm Abramson creadted it because
He felt it would improve global reach of computer communication
Terrain on Hawaii made traditional networking infastrucutre too diffucult
He was inspired by a similar creation Ethernet
His componay wanted a foothold in the Network market
3
Wich of the technologies used in APARNET was first created created
Electronic Mail
TCP/IP
IMP(node)
Store and Forward Packet Switching
4
The military's collection of IBM AN/FSQ-7 comupters coined SAGE stood for
Semi Autonomous Ground Enviorment
Semi Automated Ground Enviorment
Semi Automated General Electronic
Super Awesome Good Electronic
5
What app launched personal computing for buisness
Word Star
Wang OIS
Word proccesor
VisiCalc
6
PDP-8, DEC's minicomputer sold for a market low price of what in 1965
50,000
15,000
125,000
18,000
7
IBM's off the shelf PC made it susceptibile to clones which had all the same parts execpt
The processor
The memory card
Bios
The opertaing system
8
John Mcarthys idea for Timesharing could be described as
A collection of computers connected by telphone wires
Multiple users accessing a central computer through a keyboard
The use of radio waves to connect computers wirelessly
Standardizing computer netcode to allow all users to send information
9
What was the name of Intels first multi-purpose microchip
4004 Microprocessor
Intel 1004 Microproccesor
8008 Microprocessor
Intel Micro Chip
10
Why did AT&T not initally commercialize the new portable and powerful UNIX OS
They felt it didnt have a place in the market
They believed that it would only be useful in a academic setting
They were a goverment regulated monoply
Ken Thompson wanted UNIX to be open source
11
True or False Basics compiled one line of code at a time as apposed to Fortran wich compiled a whole program
False
True
12
Project Whirlwhind was initially contracted for wich purpose
The Cold War
Airline databasing
Research at MIT
Air Force flight simulator
13
CTSS a timesharing system at its peak could support how many users
15
25
30
20
14
The Unix operating system influnced all of the following except
Fortran
The World Wide Web
Android
MacOS
15
Bill Gates and Paul Allen frist entered the age of personal computing by creating what
QDOS
Windows 95
MS-DOS
Microsoft Basic
16
Which of the following was considered a early interactive computer
ENIAC
EDVAC
UNIVAC
Project Whirlwind
17
GUI could be described as
A interface in wich a user can see text and images displayed on a monitor
A short term memory storing software that a computer uses
The interaction of the software with the computers OS
The language of wich a computer is compatiable with
18
Xerox's frist computer the Alto, had wich function of a modern Computer
Bluetooth
A Dot Matrix Printer
WiFi
A bitmapped monitor
