In what decade did operating systems get their start, by augmenting manual tasks?

When a computer was done with one program, it would automatically start the next. This was called ___

Hardware devices connected to a computer, such as keyboards and printers, are called ___

Programmers often had to write code for early peripherals by ___

In order to interface with hardware peripherals OSs provide a software abstraction, through APIs, called ___

Device drivers allow programmers to use standardized mechanisms to talk with common ___

In the late 50’s, the University of Manchester, in the UK, started work on a supercomputer called ___

The Atlas Supervisor, which could run several programs at the same time, was finished in ___

The ability to run many programs simultaneously, enabled by the Operating System, is called ___

When multitasking, the OS must allocate each program its own ___

To hide the complexity of data stored across a bunch of different blocks of memory, Operating Systems use ___

With Virtual Memory, programs can assume their memory always starts at ___

The mechanism that allows programs to have flexible memory sizes is called ___

Preventing a process from accessing memory that has not been allocated to it is a feature called ____

Atlas was the first computer and OS to support which two memory features?

A keyboard and screen that connects to a big computer, but doesn’t contain any processing power itself, is called a ___

Allowing each individual user to utilize only a small fraction of a computer’s processor or memory is called ___

The most influential of early time-sharing Operating Systems was Multics, released in what year?

Which researcher, working on Multics, said that it was "over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.”?

Which lean operating system was built by Multics researchers Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson?

The core functionality of the UNIX OS, things like memory management and multitasking, was named the ___

When the UNIX kernel crashed, and had no recourse to recover, it would run a routine called ___

An affordable computer that an individual can have in the home is called a ___

Which operating system, first released in 1981, was just 160 kilobytes allowing it to fit onto a single disk?

Due to a lack of strong memory protection, which OS was known to give the "blue screen of death"?