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Comp Arch Quiz 1.1-1.4

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 5 pts

Who is considered the first computer programmer?

Margaret Hamilton

Ada Lovelace

Grace Hopper

Katherine Johnson

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 5 pts

The "stored program concept" embodied in the EDVAC design is mostly closely associated with which famous computer scientist?

Charles Babbage

Alan Turing

John von Neumann

Howard Aiken

3.

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45 sec • 5 pts

One limitation from the original Princeton architecture is the single path for both data and instructions to memory. This is known as the "von Neumann ________".

4.

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45 sec • 5 pts

The major invention in the second generation of computers was the switch from unreliable vacuum tubes to _______.

5.

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45 sec • 5 pts

____ memory is made from many tiny ring shaped magnets woven together.

6.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

"______ on a chip" designs move most of a computer's components onto a single integrated circuit chip.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which company's processor was selected for the original IBM PC?

Intel

Motorola

Apple

AMD

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