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Over the years, the number of transisters that can be placed on a chip has
increased by how much? - ANSWER-By orders of maginitude rather than
linearly
What is the phenomenon observed that the number of transistors on a chip
doubles every year and will continue for at least the next ten years? -
ANSWER-Moore's law
How long has Moore's law continued to be a trend? - ANSWER-from 1965 to
the present
Is moore's law an observation or a physical law? - ANSWER-observation
The fetch-execute cycle is performed in an overlapped fashion on several
instructions. - ANSWER-pipelines cpu
a programming language that is a lengthy list of 1s and 0s. - ANSWER-machine
language
An early language translator that would translate an assembly program into
machine language. - ANSWER-assemblers
,Language that consists of English words, mathematical notation, and familiar
syntax such as a semicolon used to end statements. - ANSWER-high level
language
What was the operation system called in the early 1960s? - ANSWER-a resident
monitor
Which statement allowed the programmer to transfer control from any location
in a progam to anywhere else in the program? - ANSWER-GOTO
What does the GOTO statement create? - ANSWER-spaghetti code
What replaced the GOTO statement with high level control constructs such as
while loops, and if-else statements, and is not allowed to use the GOTO
statement? - ANSWER-structured programming
A stand alone entity that would be programmed to handle its own internal
methods as well as messages received from other objects. - ANSWER-An
object
What is the main difference between a compiled language and an interpreted
language? - ANSWER-An interpreted language runs inside of a special
environment called the interpreter.
When a programmer enters a command, what converts that command to
machine language and executes it? - ANSWER-the interpreter
Software used by select groups with an organization or to a specific discipline
such as music sequencers, samplers, and digital recorders for muscians. -
ANSWER-vertical software
, Progams that make up the operating system and directly supports the computer
system itself. - ANSWER-system software
Pieces of the operating system that run in the background all of the time -
ANSWER-daemons or services
works with hardware to provide a network service, types of software includes
web servers, email servers, and database servers - ANSWER-server software
software stored on an individual computer - ANSWER-local application
the ability to have computation anywhere at any time - ANSWER-ubiquitous
computing
Android, Chrom, and iOS are common operating systems for which type of
computer? - ANSWER-mobile devices
dedicated computers within a network whose function is to respond to network
requests and provide a network service - ANSWER-server
loaded when the computer is first booted, included components that handle
process mgmt, resource mgmt, and memory mgmt - ANSWER-kernel
sits on top of the hardware and is the interface between hardware and software -
ANSWER-the kernel
a piece of the operating system that provides specific interfaces between the OS
running a computer and hardware. - ANSWER-device drivers
an interface for the user that provides access to the kernel - ANSWER-the shell