Question

1. The first true digital computer was designed by: (10 points)
Ada Lovelace
Charles Babbage, an English mathematician
John von Neumann
Bill Gates
2. In the earliest days of electronic digital computing, there was no operating system. (10 points)
True
False
3. Your research on the History of Hardware for computers from the 1960s to the present, stated "the basis
of the fourth generation was Marcian Hoff's invention of the microprocessor." (10 points)
True
False
4. All of the following are operating systems EXCEPT: (10 points)
Windows XP
OS X
Linux
Apple

Answer 1

5. The purpose of an operating system is to organize and control hardware and software so that the device it
lives in behaves in a flexible yet predictable way. (10 points)
True
False
6. All computers have operating systems. (10 points)1/23/2014 Operating Systems
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True
False
7. Today's operating systems can accommodate thousands of different printers, disk drives, and special
peripherals in any possible combination. (10 points)
True
False
8. Real-time operating system is the type of operating system most people use on their desktop and
laptop computers today. (10 points)
True
False
9. An operating system can ensure that applications continue to run when hardware upgrades and updates
occur. (10 points)
True
False
10. The operating system's tasks, in the most general sense, fall into six categories:
Processor management
Memory management
Device management
Storage management
Application interface
User interface
(10 points)
True
False

Answer 2

i got an 80 but these are the correct answers
b
true
false
d
true
false
true
false
true
true

Answer 3

lifesaver omg hate this quiz