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Questions

1. Name the Trojan horse, an anagram of Help, that has been threatening computers running the latest Windows XP since end December.

2. What famous cyber-entity did David Duffield found in 1987?

3. Name Hewlett-Packard's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system.

4. Another on founders. Who co-founded Baazee.com along with Avnish Bajaj?

5. With respect to the Pentium 4 processor, what is `clock gating'?

6. With which chipmaker are the codenames Palermo, San Diego and Toledo associated?

7. Which company's Web portal has the tagline `Worldwide Leaders in Graphics and Digital Media Processors'?

8. When was ARPAnet, the world's first multiple-site computer network, created?

9. The OpenStep API was the result of a 1993 collaboration between which two companies?

10. Xerox's Gary Starkweather is credited with developing what computer `peripheral' in 1971.

Answers

1. Phel.

2. PeopleSoft.

3. HP-UX.

4. Suvir Sujan.

5. Activating the clocks in a logic block only when there is work to be done.

6. AMD.

7. NVIDIA.

8. 1969.

9. NeXT Computer and Sun Microsystems.

10. Laser printer.

V.V. Ramanan

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