New Computers
The first affordable GUI/mouse computer made by Apple.
What is the Macintosh?
Was created to be able to access computers remotely but grew because it included electronic mail.
What is ARPANET?
Founder of Microsoft
Who is Bill Gates?
Computer games that were first created for minicomputers but spread to arcades and personal computers.
What is a video game?
Stands for GUI
What is a graphical user interface?
An early example of an interactive computer was made by Jay Forrester at Servomechanism Laboratory.
What is Project Whirlwind?
A successor to CTSS and could only handle 25 users at once (less than the CTSS).
What is Multics?
The creator of ALOHAnet and a professor at the University of Hawaii.
Who is Norm Abramson?
A computer that can display text and images simultaneously.
What is a bitmapped display?
Stands for PDP
What is the Programmed Data Processor?
Known as the quintessential minicomputer made by DEC.
What is the PDP-11?
Created in Dartmouth by John Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz to make computing more accessible to all students and included timesharing.
What is BASIC?
The creator of Smalltalk, a programming language that popularized object-oriented programming.
Who is Barbara Liskov?
Created by Robert Metcalf to allow Alto machines to communicate with each other by connecting them to a cheap coaxial cable.
What is the Ethernet?
Stands for SABRE
What is a Semi-automatic Business Research environment?
An affordable "personal computer" that led to the popularity of Intel and Microsoft.
What is the Altair 8000?
Made by Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie. Was first developed on a PDP-7.
What is Unix?
Creator of the computer mouse
Who is Douglas Englebart?
The idea is that the general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one
What is the "second system effect"?
Stands for TCP/IP
What is Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol?
Proposed by William C. Lowe to make a computer mostly using off-the-shelf parts
What is IBM PC?
Formerly called QDOS, Microsoft purchased from the system Seattle Computer Products and renamed it. It became the basis of all of Microsoft's operating systems.
What is MS-DOS?
People who individually developed the idea of store and forward packet switching. Its 3 people.
Who are Leonard Kleinrock, Paul Baran, and Donald Davis
Computers would be available to a larger audience through the connection of multiple keyboard terminals to a central computer.
What is timesharing?
Stands for WYSIWYG
What is "what you see is what you get"?