Tuesday 10 December 2013

SOME FACTS ABOUT IT AND COMPUTERS YOU NEED TO KNOW


1.A byte means 8 bits and a nibblemeans 4 bits.
2.First harddisk available was of 5MB
3.Ethernet is the registered trademark 0f Xerox.
4.google uses over 10000 network computers to crawl the web.
5.Google can be queried in 26 languages
6.The floopy disk was patented byallen shugart in 1946.
7.More than 80% of web pages are in english.
8. 88% percent web pages have very low traffic rate.
9. An average american is dependent on 250 computers.
10.Internet is most fastest growing platform for advertisement.
11.About one third of CDs are pirated
12.About 76% softwares used in india are pirated.
13.Only 10% of the webpages are used by the search engines
14."I am feeling Lucky" This button is used by negligible no of people on net.
15.Bill gates & Paul Allen started a company called Traf-O-Data to
monitor traffic flow.
16.The four largest software makers in the world are:
(a) Microsoft
(b) Adobe
(c) Sap
(d) Computer Associates.
17.Top Ten Supercomputers of Today's Generation Arranged according to the speed:
1. Bluegene/ L DD2 Beta-system (IBM).
2. Columbia (NASA).
3. Earth Simulator (NEC).
4. MareNostrum(Barcelona Supercomputer Center).
5. Thunder (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).
6. ASCI Q(Los Alamos National Laboratory).
7. System X(Virgina Tech).
8. Blugene/L DD1 Prototype(IBM).
9. eServer pSeries 655 cluster (Naval Oceanographic Office).
10. Tungsten(National Center ForSupercomputing

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