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Acadec 2023-24 Social Science Sections 2-3
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1
What was the first wireless net?
ARPANET
ALOHAnet
Ethernet
BITNET
2
Who acquired the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC)?
Northrop Aircraft
Remington Rand
NCR
IBM
3
What was the main problem with the Apple Lisa?
It had too little memory
It had a confusing operating system
It was too bulky
It was too expensive
4
Microchips are used in which computer function?
Processing
Memory and Processing
Storage
Memory
5
Which company, who owned the patent for the ENIAC, claimed the patent applied to all electronic computers?
Remmington Rand
Sperry Rand
NCR
Unisys
6
What was the first high-level programming language? The first business-oriented programming language? (respectively)
A-0; FLOW-MATIC
FLOW-MATIC; FORTRAN
B-0; COMTRAN
FORTRAN; FLOW-MATIC
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Who started Intel?
Robert Noyce
Steve Jobs
Gordon Moore
Robert Metcalfe
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What was the first timesharing sytem?
Whirlwind
SABRE
CTSS
SAGE
9
Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the PDP-11 (a computer released by the Digital Equipment Corp.)
C (programming language) was written on the PDP-11
Motorola 68000 microprocessor was modeled after PDP-11
The Unix System was written using a language created on the PDP-11
Release of PDP-11 led to theOEM (original equipment manufacturing) industry
10
What is Brook's Law?
Adding more developers to a software project will speed it up
Adding more people to a late software project makes it later.
Software complexity increases exponentially over time.
The number of transistors on a microchip doubles every two years.
11
Which of the following best describes what VisiCalc did?
It was a digital financial reccord book
It was a digital mathematical graphing tool
It was a digital calculator capable of preforming complex operations
It was a digital spreadsheet
12
What was the TCP/IP?
A hardware component used in computers
A popular programming language used to create many early computer OSs
The protocol for packet switching between nodes on the ARPANET
The protocol on how data should be formated, encoded, and transmitted
13
What was the world's first fully functional stored-program computer?
Manchester Baby
Manchester Mark I
EDSAC
Manchester United
14
What was the biggest problem IBM's PC faced?
It was too expensive compared to other personal computers
It had limited graphic and sound capabilities
It was difficult to download software on the IBM PC
It was easy to recreate with the given parts
15
Which computer did Bill Gates and Paul Allen create a programming langauge for that would become the basis of Microsoft?
The TRS-80
The Altair 8800
The Alto
The Commodore PET
16
IBM created the Systems/360 using macroprogramming
True
False
17
What was the memory system used in the EDVAC that was better than the memory system used in the ENIAC?
Vacuum Tubes
Mercury Delay Line
Williams Tubes
Magnetic Drums
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Why was BASIC created?
To enable complex mathematical calculations on early computers.
To standardize programming for different computer systems.
To provide a high-level programming language for business applications.
To simplify the process of writing and understanding computer programs.
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Which three scientists created the first ever computer: the ENIAC?
Atanasoff, Berry, Zuse
Xia, Kim, Yang
Mauchly, Goldstein, Eckert
Mauchly, von Neumann Eckert,
