What is the main difference between a mainframe and a super computer?
Super computer is much larger than mainframe computers
Super computers are much smaller than mainframe computers
Supercomputers are focused to execute as many programs as possible while mainframe uses its power to execute few programs as fast as possible.
Supercomputers are focused to execute few programs as fast as possible while mainframe uses its power to execute as many programs concurrently
Correct Answer :
D. Supercomputers are focused to execute few programs as fast as possible while mainframe uses its power to execute as many programs concurrently
Related Questions
The brain of any computer system is
ALU
Memory
CPU
Control unit
ASCII and EBCDIC are the popular character coding systems. What does ASCII stand for?
American Stable Code for International Interchange
American Standard Case for Institutional Interchange
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
American Standard Code for Interchange Information
A ________ is an additional set of commands that the computer displays after you make a selection from the main menu
dialog box
submenu
menu selection
All of the above
The capacity of 3.5 inch floppy disk is
1.40 MB
1.44 GB
1.40 GB
1.44 MB
Most of the first generation computers were
Special purpose computers
General purpose computers
Both of above
None of above
Which of the following is required when more than one person uses a central computer at the same time?
Terminal
Light pen
Digitizer
Mouse
Which of the following computer language is used for artificial intelligence?
FORTRAN
PROLOG
C
COBOL
Which of the following machine was not invented by Charles Babbage?
Tabulating Machine
Analytical Engine
Difference Engine
Both C and D
A directly accessible appointment calendar is feature of a resident package
CPU
Memory
Buffer
ALU
The computer that process both analog and digital is called
Analog computer
Digital computer
Hybrid computer
Mainframe computer
The first microprocessor built by the Intel corporation was called
8008
8080
4004
8800
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
________ is the process of dividing the disk into tracks and sectors.
Tracking
Formatting
Crashing
Allotting
Which of the following are the functions of a operating system
Allocates resources
Monitors Activities
Manages disks and files
All of the above
Who developed a mechanical device in the 17th century that could add, subtract, multiple, divide and find square roots?
Napier
Babbage
Pascal
Leibniz
Which of the following is not computer language?
High level language
Medium level language
Low level language
All of the above
A small or intelligent device is so called because it contains within it a
Computer
Microcomputer
Programmable
Sensor
What is an interpreter?
An interpreter does the conversion line by line as the program is run
An interpreter is the representation of the system being designed
An interpreter is a general purpose language providing very efficient execution
None of the above
EEPROM stands for
Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
ENIAC uses
Decimal Numbering System
Octal Numbering System
Binary Numbering System
Hexadecimal Numbering System
A dumb terminal has
an embedded microprocessor
extensive memory
independent processing capability
a keyboard and screen
The binary system uses powers of
2
10
8
16
Which of the following is a feature of fifth generation computers?
Use of natural language
artificial intelligence
bio-chips
All of above
The basic operations performed by a computer are
Arithmetic operation
Logical operation
Storage and relative
All the above
Computer memory consists of
RAM
ROM
PROM
All of the above
The personnel who deals with the computer & its management put together are called
Software
Human ware
Firmware
Hardware
A Compiler is
a combination of computer hardware
a program which translates from one high-level language to another
a program which translates from one high-level to a machine level language
None of these
The CPU and memory are located on the:
expansion board
motherboard
storage device
output device
ALU and Control Unit jointly known as
RAM
ROM
CPU
PC
The personal computer industry was started by
IBM
Apple
Compaq
HCL