(CAR) Computer Flashcards
Foxpro is a
Computer Language (FoxPro was a text-based procedurally oriented programming language and database management system (DBMS), and it is also an object-oriented programming language, originally published by Fox Software and later by Microsoft, for MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX)
Super computer was invented by
J. H. Van Tassel
(but, Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which built many of these machines. Called “the father of supercomputing,” )
The special files of DOS are
- COM
- EXE
- BATCH
______ is the unit to express the memory of a computer
Byte
FORTRAN?
A computer programming language is mainly used for scientific research
INTERNET is
Computer based databank and communication highway
_______ was the first company in the world to manufacture computers for commercial use
Remington Rand (was an early American business machines manufacturer, best known originally as a typewriter manufacturer and in a later incarnation as the manufacturer of the UNIVAC line of mainframe computers.)
When was the first commercial computer was invented
The UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer produced in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC.
IBM was known as ______ before the year 1924
Computer Tabulating & Recording Company
____ computer was the first to use the concept of stored programs
Mark I
______ was the first to distribute mouse as a standard component with personal computers
Apple Computer
______ intel microprocessor started the PC revolution
8088
‘Intel’ stands for ?
Integerated Electronics
Computer power is measured in MIPS, it stands for ?
Million Instruction Per Second
How many generations of computer till now
the five generations of computers and the advances in technology that have led to the development of the many computing devices that we use today
A single worksheet cotains
256 columns
PC wasa originally a trade name of
IBM
GW BASIC
It is an earlier version of BASIC
It stands for ‘Gee Whiz’
Dr Ted Hoff
- In 1971, he put all the elements of a computer processor on a single chip slightly larger than one square inch.
- The result of his efforts was the intel 4004, the world first commercially available microprocessor
The power of super computer is measured in terms of
FLOPS
Floating Point Operations per second
_____ was the first truly electronic computer
ENIAC
A computer virus is
A small malicious program written in machine language
Who created World Wide Web (WWW)
Tim Berner
(also known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is currently a professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. )
The First sentence uttered by Neil Armstrong upon reaching moon in 1969 was, “One small step for man, a giant step for the mankind.” These words came through on which make a transponder?
Motorolla
