Speed Run and Facts From The Guide
The ____________ laid the foundation for personal computing.
Years
1970s and 1980s
Free software is _____________________________________________________________________________________
software in which the source code is available for everyone to inspect, modify, and reuse without restriction (Example: Github)
In the early 1980s, Richard Stallman was a programmer at the ________________________
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab at MIT
As a personal project, Torvalds began rewriting the Minix kernel to improve its compatibility with the _________________________
Intel 80386 processor
Richard Stallman doesn’t celebrate Christmas but celebrates"__________" in honor of Isaac Newton
"grav-mass"
The __________, a vast network of university and government computers, had given way to the Internet.
ARPANET
Unix was _____________________________________
not necessarily Stallman’s favorite operating system
_______________ had provided much of the funding for the AI Lab
The U.S. military
Tanenbaum was a computer science professor at Vrije University in Amsterdam, and he had published the complete source code of ___________ in a textbook he had written for one of his classes.
the Minix kernel
The first Linux Kernel, version 0.01, had just _________ lines of code. Today, the Linux Kernel has well over 30 million lines of code
10,239
Vannevar Bush was the inventor of an early analog computer, ________________.
the Differential Analyzer
Wanted his new operating system to be as
widely used
End of ____________ = Less _________________
Vietnam War
computer funding
Torvalds used Minix, a Unix-like operating system developed by ______________.
Andrew Tanenbaum.
_______ servers continue to power a significant portion of the Internet’s infrastructure, testament to its reliability and efficiency
Unix
Nelson worked on creating a hypertext system called ________.
Xanadu
“Free,” in this context, did not mean free of charge, but _________________
“free as in freedom.”
A company called ________ hired members of the AI Lab to develop improvements to the Lisp Machine software. Enhancements would be proprietary and could not be shared.
Symbolics
In Finland, a college student named _________ was also working on a Unix-like operating system.
Linus Torvalds
MIT was founded on ___________. HINT: Two days before the start of the Civil War
April 10, 1861
In 1998, the U.S. Department of Justice sued _________ for its anti-competitive tactics.
Microsoft
In order to ensure that GNU would remain “__________" Stallman enlisted the help of a lawyer and drafted a new software license
free” forever,
True or False
Symbolics Went against Stallman’s code of ethics.
True
The ___ project went perfectly with Linux
GNU
HURD stands for __________________, and ___ stands for ____________________. So, HURD is a recursive acronym
2nd long one is 2x Points
Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons
Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth