Q 01/05

The 'DOS' in MS-DOS, the command-line software Microsoft first shipped for PCs in 1981, was short for what?

A) Data Operating System

B) Digital Operating System

C) Disk Operating System

D) Desktop Operating System

Answer · why

C) Disk Operating System

Disk Operating System was a generic phrase, and the very same code also shipped on the original PC under the badge PC DOS, with rival clones borrowing...

Q 02/05

MS-DOS reserved the drive letters A: and B: for which hardware, leaving C: for the first hard disk?

A) Floppy drives

B) Magnetic tape drives

C) Parallel printers

D) Network drives

Answer · why

A) Floppy drives

Floppy drives came first because early PCs often had two of them and no hard disk at all, and Windows has honoured the leftover C: ever since.

Q 03/05

Android 4.4 was co-branded with which chocolate bar under a promotional deal struck with Nestlé?

A) Twix

B) KitKat

C) Crunch

D) Aero

Answer · why

B) KitKat

KitKat was agreed in a phone call to Nestlé and sealed at Mobile World Congress in February 2013, and in the US the bar is actually made by Hershey un...

Q 04/05

Which big cat codenamed Mac OS X 10.0, the 2001 release that began Apple's run of feline version names?

A) Jaguar

B) Leopard

C) Lynx

D) Cheetah

Answer · why

D) Cheetah

Cheetah was followed six months later by version 10.1, which Apple released on 25 September 2001 as a free update for everyone who had bought 10.0.

Q 05/05

Android Inc., bought by Google in 2005, originally set out to build an OS for which devices?

A) Set-top boxes

B) Satellite phones

C) Digital cameras

D) Handheld consoles

Answer · why

C) Digital cameras

Digital cameras were the plan until investors balked, and in April 2004 the team pivoted to phones as a rival to Symbian and Windows Mobile.