MCS 2020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Server Farm, Botnet, Horizontal Market

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 2020
• Professor: Matthew- Jim D' Elia

Document Summary

We need to know about it because of the negaive and posiive efects on society and how it will change in the future. Understanding and applying it is a fundamental building block for success. Financed by the us, the eniac (electronic numerical integrator and computer) was designed in 1946 to calculate missile-iring tables and was the irst reprogrammable general-purpose computer. A bug was used to describe unexpected computer problems resuling from a moth caught between mechanical relays of the mark ii aiken relay computer. debugging is now commonly used to describe ixing problems in computer programs. The irst digital computers, which were large, room-sized devices based on now-obsolete vacuum tube technology, were called mainframes, and were mainly used by businesses and government. Cosing between 000 and 000, they could add or subtract about 16 000 numbers per second. Second-generaion mainframes developed in the late 1950"s used transistors making them smaller, easier to maintain, and more reliable.