Information Technology and Cyber Law 5

ഇന്ത്യയുടെ സ്വന്തം ഓപ്പറേറ്റിംഗ് സിസ്റ്റം ആയ ബോസ്, സൂപ്പർ കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറുകൾ, പ്രോഗ്രാമിങ് ലാംഗ്വേജ്, ട്രാൻസ്‌ലേറ്ററുകൾ എന്നീ പ്രധാന ഭാഗങ്ങളിൽ നിന്നുള്ള ചോദ്യങ്ങളാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ പാഠത്തിൽ 

• Which is known as India's own PC Operating System

                 BOSS GNU/Linux

• BOSS stands for

                 Bharat Operating System Solutions

• No of languages supported by BOSS

                 18

• BOSS was developed by

                 C-DAC, Chennai

• BOSS was developed in

                 2007

• Sequence of logical steps used in computer to solve a problem

                 Algorithm

• Pictorial representation of algorithm is called

                 Flowchart

• Algorithm expressed using a precise notation which can be executed by a computer is called 

                 Program

• Super Computer series developed by C-DAC

                 PARAM

• C-DAC was setup in

                 1988

• First director of C-DAC

                 Dr Vijay P Bhatkar

• Super Computer developed by ISRO in 2011

                 SAGA 220

• Super Computer developed by India are

                 PARAM, EKA, Kabru, Blue Gene

• Super Computer developed by NASA named after Kalpana Chawla

                 KC

• World's fastest Super Computer

                 Sunway Taihulight (China)

• World's first Super Computer

                 CDC 6600

• India's first Super Computer

                 PARAM 8000

• India's fastest Super Computer

                 PARAM Yuva II

• First Super Computer reached teraflop speed

                 ASCI Red

• India's Super Computer launched in Sikkim

                 PARAM Kanchenjunga

• Processing speed of Super Computer is measured in

                 Flops (Floating Point Operations Per Second)

• Language that can be used to create programs is called

                 Programming language

• Two types of low level languages are

                 Machine languages and Assembly languages

• Only one language understood by computer is

                 Machine languages

• Low level language which using Binary language (0's and 1's)

                 Machine languages

• Low level language which using symbolic codes (mnemonics)

                 Assembly Language

• Programming language which using English words and familiar Mathematical symbols

                 High level languages

• Examples of High level languages

                 BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL. C, C++, Java, Python, Visual Basic

• Programming language used for business data processing

                 COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)

• Language used for the creation of web pages

                 HTML, PHP, Java Script etc

• HTML stands fot

                 Hypertext Markup Language

• HTML was developed by

                 Tim Berners Lee

• Programming language which formally known as Oak

                 Java

• Java was developed by

                 James A Glossing

• Java was developed by which company

                 Sun Micro Systems

• C Language was developed by

                 Dennis Ritchie

• C++ Language was developed by

                 Stroustrup

• C#, VB, .Net etc were developed by which company

                 Microsoft

• Error in a computer program is known as

                 Bug

• The process of eliminating errors in programs

                 Debugging

• Programs used to convert a program written in other languages to machine language

                 Translators

• Examples of translators

                 Assembler, Compiler, Interpreter

• Translator which converts assembly language program into machine language

                 Assembler

• Translators which converts high level language into machine language

                 Compiler and Interpreter

• Translators which takes entire program as input and convert into machine language

                 Compiler (Eg: C Compiler)

• Translators which takes single instruction at a time as input and convert into machine language

                 Interpreter (Eg: Basic)

• A line by line translators

                 Interpreter
                                                                                                (To be Continued...)