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C952 ExamQuestions and
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Denning [Date] [Course title]
, What was the first general-purpose computer called? Who built it? When was it built? - Answer: ENIAC
J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly
World War II
The name of the machine built by Alan Turing - Answer: Colossus
What was the first electro-mechanical computer called? Who built it? What was the architecture called?
- Answer: Mark-I
Howard Aiken
Harvard architecture
What project invented Magnetic cores served as the main memory technology? - Answer: Whirlwind
project at 1947
What were the two first commercially available computers? - Answer: BINAC and UNIVAC 1
What was the first commercial computer sold? - Answer:
What was the first true commercial computer success product line? - Answer: IBM System/360 family of
computers
Who is the "father of supercomputing"? - Answer: Seymour Cray
What was the first commercial minicomputer? - Answer: PDP-8 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
What was the first microprocessor? - Answer: Intel 4004
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