SoSci 3-4 Quiz

The first Apple computer to have a mousedriven graphics user interface was the

The primary unit of data in quantum computing is the

Which of the following firms created the video game Breakout?

The word processor developed by Xerox was known as

In creating the GNU operating system, Richard Stallman:

Which of the following Facebook features met with major backlash upon its 2006 release?

How many downloads of Netscape Navigator had taken place by the end of 1995?

Which of the following personal digital assistants was MOST commercially popular?

In the Microsoft antitrust case, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered:

Moore’s Law states that the maximum number of transistors within a processor will double every

Yahoo originally functioned as a(n)

Which of the following events led Xerox to focus on developing computer technologies?

The original purpose of Project Whirlwind was to create a(n)

The PRIMARY purpose of the Wang OIS was

The “M” in HTML stands for

A famous advertisement for the Macintosh alluded to a novel by

Standardized data formatting on ARPANET arose with the advent of the internet

The general reaction of the computer industry to Google’s victory in court against Oracle could BEST be described as

Which of the following statements does NOT describe a difference between the Altair 8800 and the TRS-80?

NeXT computers had a limited marketing reach because

IBM developed the SABRE system to expedite the process of

Hypertext is:

The term “wiki” in Wikipedia comes from the Hawaiian word for

Which of the following events led to a decline in government funding for the Artificial Intelligence laboratory?

Which of the following firms was responsible for the creation of the microprocessor?

VisiCalc disrupted IBM’s business model by:

Which of the following parts of the Minix operating system did Linus Torvalds work to improve?

The original purpose of Usenet was to

Who first discussed the potential of computer timesharing?

Small computer firms circumvented IBM’s BIOS patent through

Which of the following statements about the CTSS is NOT TRUE?

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie wrote Unix in

Which of the following groups of people did the BASIC programming language target?

The Handspring Treo differed from earlier personal digital assistant devices in that it:

Who first proposed the notion of a data packet for communication between computers?

The intermediary language in the Java programming process is known as

The first laptop computer was the

How did the relationship between Internet Explorer and the Windows OS change with the release of Windows 98?

The best description of the second-system effect is that programmers:

Every blockchain entry has a specific and interconnected sequence of bytes known as a(n)

Which of the following programming languages is commonly used to code Apple applications?

Which of the following statements BEST describes Software as a Service?

The computer team at Xerox invented the first

Which of the following events preceded a cooling of speculation in internet start-up firms?

Which of the following computers is considered to be the first minicomputer?

The original Google algorithm heavily weighted web sites depending on the