Hardware Solutions
The base material on which the components of an integrated circuit are placed.
What is Silicon?
The world's most common operating system.
What is Windows?
The acronym PC stands for this.
What is Personal Computer?
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A material with an electrical conductivity between that of a conductor and an insulator.
What is a Semiconductor?
The company whose operating system came to dominate the PC market.
What is Microsoft?
This fruity company made the PC accessible to the general population.
What is Apple?
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This component calculates all arithmetic values and controls the order in which processes are computed.
What is a CPU?
Early operating systems required this form of user input.
What is Command Line?
Before the PC computers were mostly these types of systems.
What are Mainframes?
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How a user is able to interact with a computer to give it instructions.
What are input devices?
The modern system for user input in which graphical objects are used in conjunction with the mouse and keyboard.
What is GUI?
The general name of the location in which many early computer advancements were made.
What is Silicon Valley?
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The name for the generalized layout of modern PCs.
What is von Neumann Architecture?
An early widely used operating system developed at AT&T Bell labs.
What is UNIX?
This company had a reputation known as "Nobody was ever fired for buying from..."
What is IBM?
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