Date:11/10/2004 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/bline/ew/2004/10/11/stories/2004101100280400.htm

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Questions

1. Who is the CEO of PalmSource?

2. What is the contribution of Rob Janoff to the Apple legend?

3. In which year did Time magazine name the computer as `Man of the Year'?

4. One more on Apple. Who or what is `Clarus'?

5. What is special to the Binac (Binary Automatic Computer) completed in 1949?

6. Which language was first called IAL (International Algebraic Language)?

7. Which one-time US Presidential candidate founded EDS (Electronic Data Systems) in Dallas in 1962?

8. What world-famous word processing was first released by Micropro in 1978?

9. What in 1990 was codenamed `Summit'?

10. Who preceded Louis Gerstner as chairman of IBM?

Answers

1. David Nagel.

2. He designed the famous multicoloured, `bitten-into' Apple logo.

3. 1982.

4. The Apple mascot since 1984. It's a `dogcow'.

5. It was the first computer to operate in real time.

6. ALGOL.

7. Ross Perot.

8. Wordstar.

9. IBM's System 390, its mainframe computer for the 1990s.

10. John Akers.

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