Monday,
June 24, 2002
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Compuquiz —
89
1.Which microprocessor was
developed jointly by Apple, IBM, and Motorola that uses reduced
instruction-set computing?
2.Which fully procedural
programming language originated as a report-building program used in DEC
and IBM mini-computer operating systems?
3Name the industry
standard for setting up and managing computing and data exchange in a
distributed computing environment.
4.Which solution to a bug
in an IBM software product is developed after a customer or someone at
IBM encounters a problem and an authorised analysis report (APAR) is
written?
5.Which is IBM's
proprietary operating system for the AS/400?
6.Name the division of a
computer's processors, memory, and storage into multiple sets of
resources so that each set of resources can be operated independently
with its own operating system and applications. Which is an open
operating system from IBM that is based on a version of Unix?
7.Name the
platform-specific software compiler that speeds up the interpretation of
Java byte code to native-machine code for better performance.
8.Which platform-specific
set of instructions allows a computer or browser to recognise and run
Java applets?
9.Name the term used to
describe how Java improves performance by automatically cleaning up
unused memory "on the fly."
Answers to Compuquiz 87
1.Open View
2.HP 9000
3.Superdome
4.HP-UX
5.Itanium
6.e-speak
7.EPIC
8.Predication
9.IA-64
10.NNM
None of our readers could
win the first prize for Compuquiz 87. The following are the winners for
the second and third slot.
2. Ranjit Singh, Gurdaspur
3. Monika Gupta, Chandigarh
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