കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട പ്രധാന വ്യക്തികൾ, സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയർ, ഹാർഡ്വെയർ, ഓപ്പറേറ്റിംഗ് സിസ്റ്റം എന്നിവയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചോദ്യങ്ങളാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ പാഠത്തിൽ ഉൾപ്പെട്ടിട്ടുള്ളത്.
- Father of Computer
Charles Babbage
- Father of Computer Science
Alan Turing
- Father of Information Technology
Claude Shannon
- Father of Information Technology in India
Rajiv Gandhi
- Father of Internet
Vinton Cerf
- Father of free software\ Founder of free software movement
Richard Stallman
- Father of supercomputer
Seymour Cray
- Father of Indian supercomputer
Dr. Vijay P Bhatkar
- Father of Artificial Intelligence
John McCarthy
- Physical equipment and components of a computer that can be seen and touched
Hardware (Eg : Motherboard, Keyboard, Mouse, Printer)
- A printed circuit board (PCB) that contains electronic component systems such as CPU, network card etc
Mother Board
- Set of instructions given to computer written in particular language to control and coordinate computer hardware
Software
- People who develop software are known as
Programmers
- First computer programmer
Ada Lovelace
- Softwares that designed to run hardware and application programs of the computer is called
System software
- Examples of system software
Operating system, Utility software, device drivers etc
- Softwares that designed to help the user to perform specific tasks
Application Softwares
- Examples of application software
MS Office, Media players, Tally etc
- The term “free software” was coined by
Richard Stallman
- Software which does not give the user freedom to study, modify and share the software
Proprietary Software (Eg : MS Windows, Tally)
- Proprietary Software which provided to users only for a limited period of time on a trial basis
Shareware (Trialware)
- Software which gives user freedom to study, modify and share the software
Free\Open source Software (Eg : Linux, Firefox, Python)
- The autonomous institution under the Govt. of Kerala with the objective of coordinating free and open source software initiatives withing Kerala
ICFOSS (International Centre for Free and Open Source Software)
- Combination of software and hardware is known as
Firmware
- Computer chips that have programs recorded on them are known as
Firmware
- Type of software which are copyrighted but still can be used for free
Firmware
- Software which available on hardware is known as
Firmware
- Examples of firmware
ROM, EPROM, Flash memory
- Firmware is stored in
ROM
- Collection of programs which control the overall operations of the computer
Operating System
- Which is acting as an interface between computer hardware and user
Operating System
- Important operating systems are
DOS, Linux, Windows, Mac OS, Unix, Ubuntu etc
- Windows OS was developed by
Microsoft
- Founders of Microsoft
Bill Gates and Paul Allen
- The first version of Windows
Windows 1.0
- Windows operating system for mobile phones
Windows mobile
- Android operating system is currently developed by
- Versions of Android
Cupcake, Sandwich, Gingerbread, Jelly Bean, Kitkat, Lolipop, Marshmallow, Nougat, Oreo
- Latest version of Android
Oreo
- First chat operating system in the world
Flock OS
- Linux OS was developed by
Linus Benedict Torvalds
- First fully supported 64-bit OS
Linux
- Mac OC (Macintosh OS) was developed by
Apple
- Versions of Mac OS
Leopard, Snow leopard, Mountain Lion, Mavericks
- OS in which assembly language was first used
UNIX
- Unix associated OS developed by IBM
AIX
- Process of loading OS in the memory when computer is switched ON is called
Booting
- Latest version of Windows OS
Windows 10
(To be Continued…)