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Questions

1. In DOS systems, how are memory-resident programs referred to?

2. Which start-up introduced Real Audio software in 1995?

3. Net lingo. Who is a ``Cancelmoose''?

4. Who are Charles Geschke and John Warnock?

5. What is Douglas Coupland's Microserfs about?

6. Which was the first virus to be named after a tennis player?

7. In the movie The Net, in which company is Sandra Bullock an analyst?

8. Name the recently closed group purchasing Web site that was founded by Paul Allen (of Microsoft fame)?

9. How many characters can be used on a SMS message?

10. What is an A2B site?

Answers

1. TSRs (Terminate and Stay Resident) or pop-up utilities.

2. Progressive Networks

3. An individual who wages war against spamming.

4. The founders of Adobe Systems.

5. It is about a group of Microsoft employees who became a pop- culture reference.

6. Kournikova

7. Cathedral Systems

8. Mercata

9. 160

10. Appliance to Business site.

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