Multi user systems provided cost savings for small business because they use a single processing unit to link several
Personal computers
Workstations
Dumb terminals
Mainframes
Correct Answer :
C. Dumb terminals
Related Questions
Who is the chief of Microsoft
Babbage
Bill Gates
Bill Clinton
none of these
What is required when more than one person uses a central computer at the same time?
Light pen
Mouse
Digitizer
Terminal
A computer program that converts an entire program into machine language at one time is called a/ an
Interpreter
simulator
characters
compiler
An index register that is automatically incremented or decremented with each use is
Auto index
Asynchronous
Assembler
Compiler
The Stepped Reckoner was invented by
John Napier
William Oughtred
Gottfried Leibnitz
Blaise Pascal
Web cam is an
input unit device
output unit device
processing device
Input and Output device
IBM System/360 is
Mainframe Computer
Mini Computers
Micro Computers
None of above
A self replicating program, similar to a virus which was taken from a 1970s science fiction novel by John Bruner entitled the Shockwave Rider is
Bug
Vice
Lice
Worm
Which technology is more reliable?
Mechanical
Electro-Mechanical
Electronic
For reliability it does not matter. So all of above are reliable
Which of the following is an example of fifth generation computer?
PIM/m
ICL 2950
IBM 1401
None of above
Which American computer company is called Big Blue?
Microsoft
Compaq Corp
IBM
Tandy Svenson
What type of virus uses computer hosts to reproduce itself?
Time bomb
Worm
Melissa virus
Macro virus
Who is the inventor of Difference Engine�?
Allen Turing
Charles Babbage
Simur Cray
Augusta Adaming
What is the name of the display feature that highlights are of the screen which requires operator attention?
Pixel
Reverse video
Touch screen
Cursor
Which is a machine-oriented high-level language for the GEC 4080 series machines.
LOGO
SNOBOL
Babbage
ALGOL
Who suggested Stored Program Concept
John Mauchley
J.P. Eckert
John Neumann
Joseph Jacquard
Nepal brought a computer for census of 2028 BS. This computer was of
first generation
second generation
third generation
fourth generation
Which of the following is machine independence program?
High level language
Low level language
Assembly language
Machine language
Regarding data, computers are very good at
store
Processing
retrieve
All of above
The translator program used in assembly language is called
Compiler
Interpreter
Assembler
Translator
Storage capacity of magnetic disk depends on
tracks per inch of surface
bits per inch of tracks
All of above
disk pack in disk surface
A set of rods where numbers were carved and used for multiplication and division aids is known as
Pascaline
Napier's Bones
Stepped Reckoner
Slide Rule
Regarding a VDU, Which statement is more correct?
It is an output device
It is an input device
It is a peripheral device
It is hardware item
A computer which CPU speed around 100 million instruction per second and with the word length of around 64 bits is known as
Super computer
Minicomputer
Micro computer
Macro computer
ASCII stands for
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
American Scientific Code for International Interchange
American Standard Code for Intelligence Interchange
American Scientific Code for Information Interchange
The language that the computer can understand and execute is called
Machine language
Application software
System program
All of above
The most common type of storage devices are-
Steel
optical
magnetic
flash
A memory that holds micro programs is
Core memory
ROM
RAM
Control memory
An _________ Device is any device that provides information, which is sent to the CPU
Input
Output
CPU
Memory
Who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns in a waving machine?
Pascal
Hollerith
Babbage
Jacquard