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Onboard systems are computers placed inside other products to add features and capabilities.

• True

• False

Card systems date from the earliest computers, which relied on punched cards or tape for input when a job was entered by assembling the cards into a deck and running the entire deck of cards through a card reader as a group.

• True

• False

The supercomputer was developed primarily for government applications needing massive and fast number-crunching ability to carry out military operations and weather forecasting.

• True

• False

In the 1950s, only one FORTRAN program could run at a time, and then the FORTRAN compiler had to be reloaded into memory.

• True

• False

The name for the nucleus of an operating system is the ____.

• manager

• center

• core

• kernel

In second-generation computers, to reduce the discrepancy in speed between the I/O and the CPU, an interface called the ____ was placed between them to act as a buffer.

• control unit

• scheduler

• holder

• buffer manager

The primary distinguishing characteristic of modern computers is ____.

• memory capacity

• processor capacity

• disk space

• physical size

A system with ____ divides programs into parts and keep them in secondary storage, bringing each part into memory only as it is needed.

• virtual memory

• shared memory

• segmented processing

• passive multiprogramming

A hybrid system is a combination of the ____ systems.

• batch and interactive

• batch and real-time

• interactive and real-time

• real-time and general-purpose

The File Manager is responsible for data files but not program files.

• True

• False