EECS 1520 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: User Friendly, Personal Computer, Fortran

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: John Hofbauer

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For exercises 11-23, match the hardware listed to the appropriate generation: first, second, third, fourth, fifth. A: circuit boards, transistor, magnetic core memory, card input/output, parallel computing. D: loaders/linkers bundled into operating system, java, spss, c++ The original user was the programmer who had a problem to solve. By the 1970s, application programs were being written such that non-programmers could use them to solve problems. With the advent of the personal computer, many people began using the computer for personal correspondence, personal accounts, and games: why was mosaic important, discuss the browser wars. It ushered in the world of user-friendly browsers such as netscape, internet explorer, and firefox. Netscape navigator and internet explorer were the big competing user-friendly browsers. Microsoft"s ie was bundled with the window"s operating, giving ie the edge, which led to a monopoly lawsuit. However, the damage was done and ie was the winner: describe how the web changed after 2002.