A semiconductor memory which allows the eraser of the information stared in it so that new information can be stared in it is referred as:
- (A) EPROM
- (B) ROM
- (C)RAM
- (D) None
- (A) EPROM
Extended ASCII uses:
- (A) 8 bits for coding
- (B) 9 bits for coding
- (C) 10 bits for coding
- (D) 11 bits for coding
- (B) 9 bits for coding
Which of the following memory medium is not used as main memory system?
- (A) Magnetic core
- (B) Semiconductor
- (C) Magnetic tape
- (D) Both a and b
- (C) Magnetic tape
Registers, which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional, are known as:
- (A) PC
- (B) Memory address registers
- (C) General purpose register
- (D) Flags
- (D) Flags
One of the main features that distinguish microprocessors from micro-computers is:
- (A) Words are usually microprocessors larger
- (B) Words are shorter in microprocessors
- (C) Microprocessor does not contain I/O devices
- (D) Exactly the same as the machine cycle time
- (C) Microprocessor does not contain I/O devices
The least significant bit of the binary number, which is equivalent to any odd decimal number, is:
- (A) 0
- (B) 1
- (C) 1 or 0
- (D) 3
- (B) 1
The first microprocessor built by the Intel Corporation was called:
- (A) 8008
- (B) 8080
- (C) 4004
- (D) 8800
- (C) 4004
Who built the calculator using bulbs and batteries: world’s first electronic telephone relays, light?
- (A) Claude Shannon
- (B) Kennard Zeus
- (C) George Stibitz
- (D) Howard H. Aiken
- (C) George Stibitz
Who developed a mechanical device in the 17th century that could add, subtract, multiple, divide and find square roots?
- (A) Napier
- (B) Babbage
- (C) Pascal
- (D) Leibniz
- (D) Leibniz
IBM 7000 digital computer:
- (A) Belongs to second generation
- (B) Uses VLSI:
- (C) Employs semi conductor memory
- (D) Has modular constructions
- (A) Belongs to second generation