Description: Trivia on the history of computing.
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Created on: March 8, 2010, 7:38 pm PST
Where was the first transistor invented?
a. MIT b. Bell Labs c. Cal Tech d. Los Alamos
Who invented FORTRAN?
a. John McCarthy b. John Backus c. Marvin Minsky d. Niklaus Wirth
Who invented Pascal?
ADA was developed by which federal agency?
a. Department of Defense b. Department of Energy c. Department of Commerce d. Department of Agriculture
Richard Feynman is associated with which supercomputing company?
a. IBM b. SGI c. Cray d. Thinking Machines
Where was Microsoft's first headquarters located?
a. Albuquerque, NM b. Seattle, WA c. Redmond, WA d. San Jose, CA
Microsoft used to sell which version of UNIX?
a. Xinu b. BSD c. Linux d. Xenix
Where was Unix orginally developed?
a. MIT b. Bell Labs c. Cal Tech d. Berkeley
Which was Intel's first processor desinged for multi-tasking?
a. 8086 b. 80186 c. 80286 d. 80386
Who invented Linux?
a. Bill Gates b. Linus Torvalds c. Marvin Minsky d. Selbit (except he was 2 years too late!)
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