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What is an operating system?
A program that coordinates all the parts of the computer and allows everything to work together
A layer of software that runs between the hardware and the applications; the operating system manages access to the computer's memory and peripherals and ensures that each application is granted sufficient resource.
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Who was Ada Lovelace the daughter of?
Lord Byron
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When was the first census performed?
1790
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Who patented and designed the first practical typewriter?
Christopher Lathem Sholes
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The Harvard Mark I was loud and the noise was compared to what?
"A roomful of ladies knitting"
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How many models of the system/360 were released in April 1964?
6
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Who was put in charge of Project Whirlwind?
Jay Forrester
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What year did the first laptop computer appear?
1982
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Who was the inventor of the mouse?
Douglas Engelbart
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What does the Entscheidungsproblem ask?
Whether it is possible to create an algorithm that will prove any logical statement true or false
Does every problem have an algorithmic solution?
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What was the name of the first successful portable computer?
The Osborne 1
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What was Grace Hopper's most visible influence in the design of COBOL?
Favoring English-like syntax over algebraic syntax
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What year was Steve Jobs fired from Apple?
1985
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Who developed Fortran?
John Backus
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Where were the first two "von Neumann architecture" computers built?
England
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What was the difference between Fortran and Flow-matic?
Flow-matic was designed for business rather than Fortran being designed for scientific applications
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What did Dorr E. Felt invent?
The Comptometer
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When was Minitel shutdown?
2012
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Who invented the 4004 microprocessor?
Ted Hoff
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Microsoft licensed the source code of the original Mosaic browser from which company?
Spyglass
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What were the names of Honeywell and IBM's programming languages?
Honeywell - FACT
IBM - COMTRAN (Commercial Translator)
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What historian said "By 1967, according to some estimates, over half of all 360 applications were emulations of older hardware"?
Paul Ceruzzi
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What year did the first NATO sponsored software engineering conference happen?
1968
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General Electric, MIT, and AT&T Bell labs
Who originally restricted access to NSFNET to the government and university users only?
The National Science Foundation
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