CLIs + Screens & 2D Graphics + Operating Systems

Which typing technique involves typing without looking at the keys?

Which lean operating system was built by Multics researchers Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson?

A keyboard and screen that connects to a big computer, but doesn’t contain any processing power itself, is called a ___

To hide the complexity of data stored across a bunch of different blocks of memory, Operating Systems use ___

What type of keyboard is typically found on phones?

On an eight-bit grayscale screen, what value represents white (or fully turned on)?

What was a typical use for early computer screens?

How can you access the command line interface on a Windows system?

Bits in memory that directly map to pixels on the screen are part of what kind of displays?

Which interface did computers primarily use until around the 1980s?

The software that supports a computer's basic functions, such as executing applications, is called ___

Atlas was the first computer and OS to support which two memory features?

Teletype machines used in early computer interfaces were originally used for what purpose?

Which field of study focuses on the interface between humans and computers?

Hardware devices connected to a computer, such as keyboards and printers, are called ___

Why are command line interfaces still commonly used by programmers today?

An affordable computer that an individual can have in the home is called a ___

When the UNIX kernel crashed, and had no recourse to recover, it would run a routine called ___

Which command lets a user change directories in a command line interface?

Before 1950, why didn't computers typically interact with humans in real-time?

When multitasking, the OS must allocate each program its own ___

Preventing a process from accessing memory that has not been allocated to it is a feature called ____

In the late 50’s, the University of Manchester, in the UK, started work on a supercomputer called ___

With Virtual Memory, programs can assume their memory always starts at ___

Why didn't most early computers use pixels?

Early mechanical computing devices used which elements for human interface?

In order to interface with hardware peripherals OSs provide a software abstraction, through APIs, called ___

Why was punch tape designed?

Which keyboard layout became popular because of the commercial success of Sholes' typewriter?

Device drivers allow programmers to use standardized mechanisms to talk with common ___

What were the earliest and most influential display technologies?

Which game is considered to be the first example of interactive fiction?

The mechanism that allows programs to have flexible memory sizes is called ___

What was stored in a character generator's ROM?

Allowing each individual user to utilize only a small fraction of a computer’s processor or memory is called ___

Early computer screens had difficulty rendering...

Which operating system, first released in 1981, was just 160 kilobytes allowing it to fit onto a single disk?

The PDP-1 from 1960 is a representation of early computing with ___

Which medium was used for computer input by the 1950s, making mechanical inputs obsolete?

When a computer was done with one program, it would automatically start the next. This was called ___

The core functionality of the UNIX OS, things like memory management and multitasking, was named the ___

What was Sketchpad?

Due to a lack of strong memory protection, which OS was known to give the "blue screen of death"?

Which input device did Sketchpad use?

What type of machine became known as terminals?

Which game requires players to visualize a fictional world based on text prompts?

What type of graphics were used for the game Spacewar!?

Programmers often had to write code for early peripherals by ___

Electrons are directed at a phosphor-coated screen in CRTs to ___

The ability to run many programs simultaneously, enabled by the Operating System, is called ___