COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
EVOLUTION OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE
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Question
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The British Colossus decoded German messages during WWII
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Enigma, device used by the German military command to encode strategic messages before and during World War II. The Enigma code was first broken by the Poles, under the leadership of mathematician Marian Rejewski, in the early 1930s.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bletchley’s bombes His bombes turned Bletchley Park into a codebreaking factory. As early as 1943 Turing’s machines were cracking a staggering total of 84, 000 Enigma messages each month-two messages every minute.
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