First computer virus was created in 1970 at Bell laboratories
WORM means Write Once Read Many
Power of a super computer is measured in FLOPS (Floating Point Operations per Second)
WWW/http: (hypertext transfer protocol) was created by Tim Burner Lee in 1992
Intel means Integrated Electronics
1 worksheet contains 256 columns
G.W.Basic G.W stands for Gate Way• Super Computer was created by J.H.Van Tassel
CORBA is Common Object Request Broker Architecture
URL is Uniform or Universal Resource Locator
Intel invented RAM chip
Information stored on disk as series of bumps on its shiny side.
DVDs hold more information than CDs. They use smaller bumps and have two reflective layers
Recordable CDs do not have bumps. There are patches of color on disk to change the reflected laser light
In 1951 Univac – 1, the world‘s first commercial computer was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. They built ENIAC, the first electronic computer in 1946
In 1968 mainframe was built.
In 1976 first supercomputer the Cray-1 was developed
In 1981 IBM produce the IBM PC.
In 1998 IBM made quantum computer
Super computers uses parallel processing
In 1974, computer games were introduced.
PROM is the abbreviation of programmable read only memory
What was the world‘s first high level programming language 1957: IBM FORTRAN
A JPEG is a picture file format – what does JPEG stand for: Joint Photographic Experts Group
During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps
Registers are temporary storage areas within the CPU.
First apple computer was built in garage.
The language of small talk is object oriented.
Shell is an operating environment.
Virtual memory is also known as virtual page.
NOS refer to operating systems for a network.
In EBCDIC each character is denoted by 8 bits.
Diodes are used in analog computer circuits as limiter.
Wetware stands for any organic intelligence.
GIGO stands for garbage in garbage out.
Application of flip-flap are counters, shift register and transfer register.
Bootstrap is associated with computer.
FORTRAN stands for formula translator.
A group of character that is termed as a single entity is called word.
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