IT Quiz – Set 4

QUESTIONS:

1. What does EULA stand for ?

2. What project was codenamed as "Whistler"?

3. This company was founded by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore who were widely associated with Andrew Grove. With its current CEO as Paul Otellini, and a pioneer in computing, which company is this?

4. This company has become a major supplier of Integrated Circuits, Graphics Processing Units and video-game consoles. Its name suggests "envy", and its CEO is Jen-Hsun Huang. Which company?

5. The MAC OS X is based on the Mach Kernel and was originally derived from what?

6. What products were introduced in the 1960's and were primarily designed by Seymour Cray at the Control Data Corporation?

7. What is "Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format" better known as?

8. What does VAIO stand for in Sony VAIO laptops?

9. Which Indian writer presented the first known description of a binary numeral system?

10. What was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system?

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ANSWERS:

1. End-User License Agreement

2. Windows XP development

3. INTEL Corp. (INTegrated ELectronics)

4. NVIDIA

5. BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution)

6. Supercomputers

7. S/PDIF (which is used to carry digital audio signals between devices and stereo components)

8. Video Audio Integrated Operation

9. Pingala

10. C programming language