CSI101: Test # 3 Study Guide

You should know:

• Interfaces
  • GUI, CLI
  • Be able to compare interface elements on the Mac and PC (Exploer, Taskbar, My Computer, etc)
• Killer Application
  • Killer Apps for the Appple II, IBM PC, Mac
  • The Company that made the killer app for the Mac
• Software
  • OS, Applications. Utilities
  • BIOS, the boot up process
    • Operating Systems
    • how OS's affected the development of the computer industry
    • Preemptive vs Cooperative Multitasking
    • Protected memory and memory management
• History of Personal Computers
  • The computer (and it's features) invented at Xerox
  • The process of develpoing the Apple II, IBM PC, Lisa, and Mac
• How storages devices work
  • optical vs. magnetic storage
  • defragmenting
  • compression
• Anything in the assigned readings: How Computers Work (ch 1 - 3, and 7 - 14)
• Anything from previous tests