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Exam 2
1
Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)‏
ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
MIT Whirlwind
UNIVAC: Universal Automatic Computer I
What are the characteristics? What are the inadequacies? Any famous applications?

2
Intel, Microsoft, Apple, the establishing stories
The facts about Intel 4004 microprocessor
How is apple I an improvement over the Altair? Basic traits of Altair, who created it?
Why did Microsoft DOS become the dominant operatinf system over Kildal’s CP/M
What is a ‘killer app’


3 Know your amazon story in Ben’s lecture

4 What does BIOS do? Know the basic function of the key parts of a computer(hard drive, random access memory, operating system, motherboard)

5 facts about GUIs, what it does

6 difference between freeware and shareware

7 WYSIWYG, how if helps with text editing

8 what’s a corporate model? What’s Gate’s position on software(implications)

9 What is a source-code? Why is the access to it important? You could bring in the google initiave as your supporting material.

10 What is the difference of Web 2.0, what are its characteristics?(explain each point with concrete examples)

11 What are criticisms of Web 2.0? explain each point with concrete examples