” says Paul Lomax, who handled the Y2K bug for Vodafone. “Clearly they assumed their systems would be long out of use by 2020. Much as those in the 60s didn’t think their code would still be around in the year 2000.”
D. Who Commercialize d the Internet? 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 (C) Before Douglas Engelbart, computers were as big as rooms and used mostly for handling numbers. But in the late '60s, at the Stanford Research Institute, Engelbart invented almost everything your personal computer has today:...
The initial impact of computers was in the area of entertainment. If you walked by a video arcade in the early 1980s, you could not have failed to notice that the use of video games was growing at what some considered an alarming rate. In 1981 the movie industry grossed 3 billion, vide...
1941:Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, design the first digital electronic computer in the U.S., called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC). This marks the first time a computer is able to store information on its main memory, and is capable of performing one operation every...
BeforeDouglasEngelbart,computerswereasbigasroomsandusedmostlyforhandlingnumbers.Butinthelate‘60s’attheStanfordResearchInstitute,Engelbartinventedalmosteverythingyourpersonalcomputerhastoday:amouse,hypertext,screensharingandmore.In1968hemadereal−timeeditstodocumentsnearly40yearsbeforeGoogleDocshitscreens;videochatted...
15. Heavy Metal music really ___ (arise) in the late 60s. 16. The ___ (character) in a film, book, or play are the people that it is about. 17. There was a woman ___ (mop) the stairs. 18. The desire to look attractive is ___ (universe). 19. Let’s make a check on...
For example, when the car breaks down in the middle of a desert (as it happened to me once, in the Californian Desert, fortunately near the one and only service station in many tens of miles, so I could limp-drive the car there and get several cans of the transmission fluid that had...
This research, with which the author is associated, stretched over a period of 40 years, and made use of several generations of computers.Sriramulu VinnakotaStructural Stability Research Council annual stability conference 2014: Structural Stability Research Council annual stability conference 2014, 25-...
The rise of human computers began in the early hunt for Halley’s comet. The astronomer Edmond Halley had predicted that the celestial body would return and that the laws of gravity could predict precisely when. But those calculations would be too complex and brutal a task for any single astr...
英语翻译There have been many different number systems in the world.A long time ago the Babylonians counted in 60S and today computers count in 2S-using only 1 and 0.We call the 2-number system the binary system.Most systems,however,count in 10S.T