History and Overview of Distributed Computing Quiz
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What laid the groundwork for modern distributed systems starting in the mid-1980s?

  • Use of concurrent processes in the 1960s
  • Invention of high-speed computer net
  • Study of distributed computing in the late 1970s
  • Development of powerful microprocessors (correct)

    • When did the study of distributed computing become its own branch of computer science?

  • Late 1970s and early 1980s (correct)
  • Late 1980s
  • 1960s
  • Mid-1980s

    • What technology began to lay the groundwork for modern distributed systems in the mid-1980s?

  • Development of mainframes
  • Development of powerful microprocessors
  • Invention of high-speed computer net (correct)
  • Development of 8-bit machines

    • What challenge are we facing with the current generation of multicore CPUs?

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    What is the computing power of the current generation of machines compared to mainframes deployed 30 or 40 years ago?

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