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Computer Science
11th Grade
04/02/2008

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Dos

Who made Dos? 

Definition
IBM
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What OS Does
Definition

The OS creates a bridge between the user and the Software.  It also controls the entire computing process. 

 

Holds/reads applications that user selects directally and indirectally. 

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DOS is good for trouble shooting...
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Later OS's with GUI, like NT's and 9X's.

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What kind of core did 9X/ME use?
Definition
DOS core.
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What are the versions of XP?
Definition
Professional, Media center, Home, 64-bit, and...
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What are the OS's that are good for networking, that are not servers?
Definition
Unix, Linux, OS/2, DOS.
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Who made OS/2?
Definition
IBM and Microsoft.
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What OS's that had a DOS core that Auto Installed?
Definition
9X/ME
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Kernal does what?
Definition
Interacts with hardware!!!
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Every process that CPU knows that is there is called...
Definition
Thread.
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What are the OS's with 32bit cores?
Definition
NT, XP, Vista, 2000.
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Go from the older OS to the newer. 

95>98>...

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...98se>ME>NT>NT3.0>NT3.1>NT3.5>NT3.51

>NT4.0>2000>XP>Vista

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98 upgrades directly to...
Definition
98se
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What OS made PnP?
Definition
98!
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NT was made from scratch

because of it's change of...

Definition
Cores.
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Multitasking was introduced in...
Definition
NT!!
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Basic notebooks have these features.
Definition
What are Offline files, Home connection.
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XP greatly improved it's features by adding...
Definition

Improved help and search functions. Very Nice.

 

Advanced sercurity. Much Better. 

 

The ability to have more than one account logged in.

 

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What OS's creates a trail to find sercurty breaches?
Definition
NT series.(XP,2000 and others).
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NT series makes OS safer by requiring...
Definition
Password.
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What system requires:

Min of 64MB RAM

Recomended amount 2GB on HDD

Min of 233MHz 

Definition
XP
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First 64bit OS.
Definition
Windows XP 64bit Edition.
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Win 2000 Server is set out to make which OS outdated?
Definition
NT Server.
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2000 Pro set out to beat, which OS's?
Definition
9X/ME, NT Workstations.
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Which is the first to the support compressed files?
Definition
XP
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XP(Pro, Home, Server) was made to make which OS's obsolete?
Definition

All of them.

 

 

Except DOS...we still need that. 

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Which of the NT series does not have PnP?
Definition
NT.
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Who made Linux?
Definition
Linus Torvalds.
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What is the registry?
Definition
Where the OS places hardware and software configuration.
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