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Section 3 Flashcards

1
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IBM and American Airlines uses SAGE technology for flight reservations
1000 travel agents, 50 locations, 2 IBM 7090 CPUs

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SABRE

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Programs on punch cards
Program output printed on paper

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Batch-oriented computing

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Interaction between computer and operator in real time

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Interactive computing

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Air Force commissions Servomechanisms Lab at MIT to build a flight simulator.
Core memory system, cathode-ray tube display screen, printer.

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Project Whirlwind

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IBM uses this technology in two AN/FSQ-7 computers with cathode-ray tube consoles
Air defense system

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SAGE

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Multiple keyboard terminals can access a central computer at the same time.
Idea by John McCarthy, developed by Fernando Corbato

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Timesharing

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Uses are allocated part of the directory to store data.
Users cannot access others data.
Users type commands onto teletype keyboards.
Supports up to 30 users.

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CTSS

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Early development of:
- “escape” and “control” keys.
- text editors.
- email messaging.

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CTSS

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Dartmouth professors Kemeny and E. Kurtz sought to make computer programming more accessible because FORTRAN was very difficult.

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BASIC programming language

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Invented in 1964 by Kemeny and E. Kurtz.
- Interpreted language, not compiled
- The program runs one line at a time
- Quick feedback
- Teletype input and output

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BASIC

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Computer that was popular for timesharing programs.

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General Electric 235

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MIT invented this to replace CTSS. Delayed due to development

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Multics

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Slow, buggy, over-engineered.
Too complex – tried to do too much. Could only support up to 25 users, even with the GE 645.

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Multics

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Founded by MIT engineer Kenneth Olsen. Pioneered the PDP series here.

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Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

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Transistors and core memory.
Cost $125,000.
Did not offer apps, software, or marketing

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PDP-1

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Cost $18,000.
Size of a refrigerator (aka a minicomputer).
Repurposed in the original equipment manufacturer industry.

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PDP-8

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Over 170,00 units sold.
Used RSTS-11 timesharing system.
Used modified form of BASIC.
Support C and the Unix OS.

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PDP-11

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18
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Invented the C programming language.

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Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie

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Minimalist design with both high and low-level access.
Could run on any computer with a C compiler.
Fast and powerful.

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Unix OS

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Commonly used in universities.
Students who learned this OS got jobs.
Infiltrated the business world.

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Unix OS

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21
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Director of the Information Processing Techniques Office.
Developed the foundations of networking in 1963.

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J.C.R Licklider

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Proposed store and forward packet switching based on nineteenth-century telegram networks.

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Leonard Kleinrock, Paul Baran, and Donald Davis

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Expanded from 4-100 nodes. Popularized electronic mail. U.S government sponsored networking program.

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ARPANET

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Rules about connected computer systems.
Each host could connect to ARPANET directly.

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TCP/IP

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An agreement on how data is formatted, encoded and transmitted.

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Protocol

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Non-ARPANET universities founded this in 1980. Notable for email and newsgroups.

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Usenet

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Early form of social media/online forums

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Newsgroups

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Founded by CUNY with access to IBM mainframe.

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Bitnet

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Merger of BITNET and CS Net.
Larger and better-funded than ARPANET.
Commercialized in the 1990s.

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NSFNET

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30
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The United States’ government’s Advanced Respearch Projects Agency network.

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ARPANET

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31
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Developed in France during the 1970-1980s. Used a display screen and keyboard.

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Minitel

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Could search phone numbers, read news, order train tickets, check weather, and access to 1000+ online services.

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Minitel

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33
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Invented the first wireless computer in Hawaii.

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Norm Abramson

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34
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Packet-switching network transmitted via radio.

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ALOHAnet

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35
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Market leader in copy machines. Patents expired in the 1970s. Company invested in developing computer technologies.

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XEROX PARC

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36
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Managed Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center

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Robert Taylor

37
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A dedicated machine for one user. PARC wanted to mass-produce individual devices.

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Personal computer (PC)

38
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Bitmapped screen displaying text and images. Keyboard and mouse.

39
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Uses laser beams to control ink placement. Print text and images precisely

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Laser printer

40
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Earliest version of these computers could not share data with others.

41
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PARC researcher developes Ethernet

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Robert Metcalfe

42
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Computers transmit data through cables

43
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The first graphical user interface based word processor. Made by the PARC team.

44
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Program for the BRAVO. What you see is what you get.

45
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Fonts, Images, layout on the Bravo program called

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WYSIWIG (features)

46
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PARC researcher who developed the programming language Smalltalk.

47
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Uses object-oriented programming developed by Alan Kay.

48
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Commercial version of the Alto, released in 1981

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Xerox Star

49
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Cost $16,000
Sluggish hardware and limited software
GUI with accessible onscreen icons

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Xerox Star

50
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Stopped selling computers in the 80s

51
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Developed the microprocessor at Intel.

52
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Debuted in 1971. Developed by Ted Hoff. Microprocessor

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4004 microprocessor

53
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Startup MITS develops this in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1974. Cost less than $400.

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Altair 8800

54
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Intel 8080 chip, 256 bytes of memory, no input/output, manually load programs through switches, expansion cards added memory and functionality.

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Altair 8800

55
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Made by Radio Shack.
Sold in large network of stores.
Earned the nickname “trash” because of its poor performance.

56
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Keyboard, monitor, and cassette tape.
Calculator-style keyboard.
Commodore 64 was the best-selling desktop PC ever.

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Commodore PET

57
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Designed by Steve Wozniak.
Apple’s first mass-produced computer.
Color graphics

58
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Ports of text-based games.
Ex. “Adventure”

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Early games

59
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Modified arcade games.
Ex. “Centipede”

60
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Written by wiring microchips.
Ex. “Breakout”

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Custom computers

61
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VisiCalc co-creator who developed the first computerized spreadsheet.

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Daniel Bricklin

62
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First computerized spreadsheet

63
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A feature that is indispensable or far superior to other products.

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Killer app

64
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VisiCalc was a killer app on the

65
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Designed as a specialized computer for word processing.
Contained keyboard, monitor, and microprocessor.
Stored documents on a centralized server.
Popular with businesses into the 1980s.

66
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Word processing softwares that outperformed WangOIS.

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WordStar, WordPerfect

67
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Developed a PC (personal computer) for IBM

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William C. Lowe

68
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Wanted to use premade parts to accelerate the process of IBM’s PC.

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William C. Lowe

69
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IBM PC Parts

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Intel 8088 chip, Microsoft BASIC, Microsoft OS

70
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Offered to provide Microsoft OS to IBM despite not yet having it to sell.

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Bill Gates

71
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Worked for Seattle Computer Products.
Wrote QDOS “quick and dirty operating system”

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Tim Paterson

72
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Microsoft purchased QDOS and called it

73
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Hit the market in 1981 and attracted large sales.

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IBM’s PC

74
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Smaller screen, 3 1/2 inch floppy disk drive, no expansion slots, 128 kilobytes of memory. Apple Computer.

75
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Portable, non-threatening appearance. Affordable. Apple Computer

76
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Famous commercial during the 1984 Super Bowl. Women disrupts IBM’s stifling.

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Apple commercial

77
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Communicates between software and a computer’s operating system. IBM copyrighted this, so people who used IBM’s code could be sued.

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BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)

78
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Made a BIOS with the same output as IBM.
Sold its own IBM-compatible computers at a lower price than IBM’s real PCs.

79
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Sold copies of its reverse engineered BIOS.

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Phoenix Technologies

80
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Computer companies who reverse engineered IBM’s BIOS.

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Dell Computer Corporation, Phoenix Technologies, Compaq

81
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Five years after its introduction, over half of PCs were

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clones of IBM machines.

82
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At the end of the 1990s,

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operating systems were developing rapidly.

83
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Based on timeshared minicomputers and the CP/M operating system (used in business)

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Microsoft’s software

84
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Not equipped to use a “point and click” GUI style.

85
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Create a new OS with a GUI, better performance, would have to rewrite existing software applications. Implementing this OS was slow and buggy.

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Windows 1.0

86
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Create a GUI to run on top of MS-DOS. Make the computer run slower. Old applications would still be functional. Technically superior, but not very popular.

87
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Microsoft and IBM launched this OS in 1987.

88
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High acclaimed upon its release in 1990.
Similar to Apple’s GUI
Enhanced Intel 80386
Overlapping windows
Multimedia Applications

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Windows 3.0

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