Sunday, May 4, 2008

10 Fact About Computers

1. 8 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.

2. Bill Gates math SAT score was a perfect 800.

3. Bill Gates home was designed using a Mac!

4. Disk drive recording head fly height (gap between the head and disc when the drive is spinning ) is less than 1 microinch while:-

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

5. When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the first two
months.

6. Windows 95 can run on 386DX at 20 Megahertz, with just 4 M.B of RAM.

7. David Bradley wrote the code for [Ctr]+[Alt]+[Delete] key sequence.

8. The 4004 was the first microprocessor of intel.

9. The nVidia GeForce 6800 ultra has 222 million transistors which is the
record for the max. no. transistors on a chip.

10. James Gosling created java at sun microsystems.He came up with the
name Java while debating over it at a coffee shop.

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