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Questions

1. What common name is given to that type of logic which recognises more than simple true and false values?

2. LIM memory is a technique for adding memory to DOS systems. Expand LIM.

3. What three-lettered word can mean a button, a password to decipher data and a field used to sort data?

4. What is a Daisy Chain?

5. What critical component of the online/Net revolution did Dennis Carl Hayes invent?

6. Which magnate's name would link eGurukool.com, vIndia.com and Indiaproperties.com?

7. Total trivia. What was dubbed ``Dos Boat''?

8. What is the following format called:> \server-name\shared-resource-pathname?

9. If Linux is to Torvalds, what is Minix to ...?

10. Name the company in Nagog Park, Acton, Massachusetts, which till recently was a subsidiary of Infosys.

Answers:

1. Fuzzy Logic.

2. Lotus, Intel, and Microsoft, the companies which developed it.

3. Key.

4. A hardware configuration in which devices are connected one to another in a series.

5. The PC modem.

6. Rupert Murdoch.

7. The yacht on which DOS 5.0 was launched.

8. Universal (Uniform) Naming Convention, a PC format for specifying the location of resources on a LAN.

9. Andrew Tannebaum.

10. Yantra Corp.

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