Amazing Facts About Computer

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• 128 bit SSL encryption is so strong that it would take much , much longer than the age of universe to crack a message encrypted using it.Even 20 years from now, if computers are a million times faster. it would still take longer than the age of the universe to crack it.
• Bill Gates math SAT score was a perfect 800.
• Bill Gates home was designed using a Mac!
• Disk drive recording head fly height (gap between the head and disc when the drive is spinning ) is less than 1 microinch while:-

1. A red blood cell is 300 microinches is diameter.
2. A particle of tobacco smoke is 250 microinches.
3. A particle of smog is 100 microinches.
4. A human hair is 4000 microinches.
   

• When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the first two months.
• Windows 95 can run on 386DX at 20 Megahertz, with just 4 M.B of RAM.
• David Bradley wrote the code for [Ctr]+[Alt]+[Delete] key sequence.
• The 4004 was the first microprocessor of intel.
• The nVidia GeForce 6800 ultra has 222 million transistors which is the record for the max. no. transistors on a chip.
• James Gosling created java at sun microsystems.He came up with the name Java while debating over it at a coffee shop.
• The first ISP was Compuserve, established in 1969 which is now under AOL.
  
• The Palm O.S fits in less than 100 K,which is less than one percent the size of Windows 98 or Mac O.S.
  
• What does 50 G.B of storage really mean?It means we can stack 3 piles of single spaced type written pages taller than the Eiffel tower and data to support this information is about 50 gigabytes.
  
• The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the IBM pc was 'The dirty dozen'.
  
• When the cd was invented, it was decided that a cd should be long enough to hold beethoven's Ninth Symphony at any tempo which was precisely 72 minutes.
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  servers r in denmark.The software is from Estonia.The domain is registered in Australia & the corporation is in south pacific island.Ths Kazaa the p2p software.
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  Bill gates & Paul Allen started a company called Traf-O-Data to monitor traffic flow.
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  The four largest software makers in the world are:-
  (a) Microsoft
  (b) Adobe
  (c) Sap
  (d) Computer Associates.
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  Top Ten Supercomputers of Today:-
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  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 For Supercomputing Applications).
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  According to university of california 1,693,000 terabytes of information are produced & stored magnetically per year.
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  Hard drives in the near future are expected to have a track density of about 100,000 tracks/inch.This means that tracks are spaced 10 millionths of an inch apart.
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  One terabyte(1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack of documents that is more than 16 times the height of New York's empire state building.
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  has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, since it began in 1982.That provided the creator 800 million in revenues.
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  The superflop (LOL!) sega dreamcast, released in 1999, was the first console game machine to sport a 128 Bit architecture.
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  The most expensive game ever developed was "ShenMue" for sega dreamcast.It costs $20 million.
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  The QWERTY keyboard layout is 129 years old.
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  South korea's SK telecom offers an inaudible ring tone to its customers which, it claims, can repel mosquitoes.
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  In 1971, the first speech recognition software named, "Hearsay" was developed in India.
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  Macquariums are aquariams made from old macintosh computers.

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