Brainteaser

Questions

1. Name the popular family of PCs originally produced by Commodore Business Machines and now owned by Gateway 2000.

2. Expand MIME.

3. Name the animated office assistant who will be missing from Windows XP.

4. What is ``preemptive multitasking''?

5. What is the term given to a series of messages sent by someone attempting to break into a computer to learn which computer network services the computer provides?

6. What is error message 401?

7. In Lotus 1-2-3, what is the extension for font files?

8. Who got the contract to build the first IMP (Interface Messaging Processor) in 1969?

9. Which Indian is the founder of the US-based $200-million Sycamore Networks Inc?

10. Who purchased WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, and the PerfectOffice application suite from Novell for $180 million in January 1996?

Answers

1. Amiga.

2. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.

3. Clippy.

4. A type of multitasking where the OS parcels out CPU time slices to each program.

5. Port Scan

6. Unauthorised

7. .afl

8. BBN of Cambridge, Massachusetts

9. Gururaj Deshpande

10. Corel

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