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This binary based computer prototype was denied funding from its inventors respective government
What is the Z1?
This programming language uses an algebra based syntax
What is FORTRAN?
Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed a version of an existing programming language for this computer's processor
What is the Intel 8080 processor?
This kernel was initially intended for the GNU OS, later replaced by Linux.
What is the HURD kernel
The section/news/stories/archives/2022/august/of this URL, indicates this about the server https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2022/august/summer-science-research.html
This was the amount of time tabulating machines reduced census counting
What is 4.5 years?
This fundamental lesson of programming states that complications occur due to increased numbers of people assigned to a development project
What is Brook's Law?
These were the methods by which telegraph lines were prevented from being monopolized
What are breaking messages into packets and packet switching?
This language was necessary to embed hyperlinks into web pages.
What is HTML (HyperText Markup Language)?
The teletype system was often referred to a combination of these two electronic components
What is a printer and keyboard?
Clearinghouses solved the inefficiencies of banks with this solution
What is the disbursement or collection of funds from representatives of other banks at a central location?
These were the two relatively new computer innovations implemented into the Manchester Baby
What are Williams Tubes and stored-program concept?
This was the method by which ALOHAnet created a network.
What is the ability to access a document from a document via embedded hyperlinks?
This electromechanical computer was 50 feet long and 2 feet deep to allow for easy servicing of mechanical components.
What is the Harvard Mark I?
This businessman bought the rights to the cash register, formed NCR, and founded a prominent salesmen school.
Who is John Patterson?
Von Neumann Architecture was utilized for this computer, created in part by the man credited with the stored-program concept.
What is the IAS computer?
This acronym described the appearance of a printed document in relation to its appearance on the 1st GUI
What is WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)
This tactic by Microsoft allowed them to undermine their royalty agreement with spyglass and gain majority share of the browser market
What is the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows?
This is the method in which Williams Tubes memory functions
What is the shooting of electrons at a phosphorescent surface?
This University was the origin of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, which could solve systems of linear equations
What is Iowa State University?
This is the meaning of a compiler
What is a program that converts source code into object code?
These were advantages of writing the UNIX OS in C as opposed to older assembly languages
What are, portability of the OS, access to the computer's memory, and a minimalist design?
These effects on the internet were a result of the dot com bubble
What is the rapid creation of technology businesses funded by venture capitalists.
This system used two duplexed IBM 7090 computers at the centralized data point in New York, which collected data from 50 terminals
What is the SABRE system used by American Airlines