Computer Alphabet. Starting with the letter A, name computer

[Crazy Guggenheim]

related object.

A: Application Interface, AI.

B:

[Jara sang]

1. Bratwurst

:P

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. Are you trying to hyjack this thread? Don't you dare! But wait,

I think there is a software company by the name of Bratwurst.

[Jara sang]

55. Shootz... foiled again

[trotsky]

2. Binary system

C:

[XemaSab]

4. C: Cobol

D:

[Ready4Change]

3. CPU

[aden_nak]

6. D: DOS

[Crazy Guggenheim]

9. Dynamic Library Link; DLL file.

[Kellanved]

57. no, thanks.

:scared:

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. E: Enter Key

Hey, I'm not a techie.

[Goldmund]

8. EGA

Extended Graphics Array -- remember that one?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

43. 640x350, programmable fonts, varied text resolutions - I remember!

It was a quantum leap from CGA/Hercules. Ahhhh, good times.

[Goldmund]

49. I remember looking at it and saying "wow, looks almost like a photo!"

And I can't help but wonder if 20 years from now, our current graphical capabilities will seem just as crude.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

52. Well, human eye resolution isn't infinite. It's got to stop somewhere. -nt

[Goldmund]

53. True in terms of resolution

But in terms of digital generation of images and animation (lighting, shading, light refraction, etc), I think there's still a long way to go.

[Xipe Totec]

10. DOS

Two meanings:

1).- Disk Operating System

2).- Denial of Service

(Ok, one meaning, two spellings if we're talking MS-DOS)


:sarcasm:

[SCDem]

11. F Floppy Disk (oh the days!)

[Demit]

12. Floating point calculations

[ghostsofgiants]

13. F:

Flux capacitor...no wait...

FireWire

[Crazy Guggenheim]

14. G: GUI

[ZombieNixon]

15. G: Graphical User Interface

Invented by Dr. Alan Kay, winner of the Charles Stark Draper award, who I've met an is really cool. The GUI was first put into use in personal computers by Apple, but was quickly stolen my Microsoft because Apple didn't patent the window/folder setup quick enough.

There, now I've upped the ante, so you have to post some history about your object (just kidding).

Is it just me, or is DU running slow today?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

16. H: Host or Hosts file.

[cprise]

17. I: ICMP packets

[Crazy Guggenheim]

19. IP, IP packets.

[cprise]

30. ICMP = Internnet Control Message Protocol

[Crazy Guggenheim]

18. Junk mail.

[lpbk2713]

20. K is for Kingston

Well known mfgr of RAM.

[Deja Q]

21. L = Linux

:D

[kick-ass-bob]

22. M: MUD

[Deja Q]

23. N = Nybble

:D

[cprise]

36. T: TRON

Nemesis of the MCP! :)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

24. N: Non-Routable IP Addresses.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

25. O: Open Source. OS.

[Kellanved]

26. O : object oriented programming

[no name no slogan]

O: OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

Yeah I'm a doc management nerd. Go figure :P

[no name no slogan]

28. Q: QWERTY keyboard

as opposed to Dvorak

[Deja Q]

27. P = peer to peer...

(or porn!)

[Kellanved]

29. P: Prolog

;-)

[Deja Q]

31. Q = Quarantine

:rofl:

[cprise]

35. Q: Qubit

[Deja Q]

32. R = Reboot

[GiovanniC]

33. S = Serious Nerds

Every one of you.

:evilgrin:

[Kellanved]

34. S: SCSI

[cprise]

37. U: Unary operator

NOT

[crispini]

56. U: Usability

Something that people who design computer programs don't do enough of.

[lpbk2713]

38. V = VPN

Virtual Private Network

[cprise]

39. W: Wifi, X: XOR, Y: err...

'Y' does not compute apparently.

[Bucky]

40. Xerxes, mighty king of Persia

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

41. XML

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

42. Yum - auto-update tool for Linux

[Kellanved]

44. Y: YACC

A compiler generator (Yet another compiler compiler) - haven't used it in years :-( .

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

45. I was going to say that, but thought it too abtruse for the general public

eom

[Kellanved]

51. how could anything pronounced "yak" be too obscure for the lounge?

That's why it won against YaBB and YaST. :D

[Cerridwen]

46. y: ymodem z: zenith, zif socket n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

47. Z: Zoltrix (modem chipset manufacturer)

[Kellanved]

48. Z: Zuse Z3

The very first...




Edit: Z3, it was the Z3, not the Z2. The Z2 was the first electromechanic computer, but it was not really complete.

[lpbk2713]

50. Didn't computer types wear white lab coats back then?

Like doctors and dentists?

[Kellanved]

54. I have no idea

But Zuse was sorta like a garage start up. No fancy laboratory to warrant white coats. Alas, the picture looks like a post-war reconstruction of the Z3.

[cprise]

58. Z: Zork