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Operating Systems

From Unix at Bell Labs to penguins, blue screens and a Start button: boot up and see how well you know the software that runs everything else.

💻 Technology medium 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • What makes a piece of software 'open source'?
  • Tux the penguin is the official mascot of which operating system?
  • What did the letters 'XP' stand for in the name Windows XP?
  • Which version of Windows introduced the Start button and the taskbar?
  • Android, the mobile operating system, is built on top of which kernel?
  • What does the 'X' in the name Mac OS X stand for?
  • Windows 1.0, released in 1985, was a standalone operating system that did not need MS-DOS.
  • Linus Torvalds was a student at which university when he started writing Linux in 1991?
  • Apple's iPhone software was called 'iPhone OS' until 2010, when it was renamed iOS.
  • Select ALL of these that went on sale as official Windows product names.
  • Apple's desktop system versions were named after big cats until 2013. What did Apple name them after next?
  • In 2016 Microsoft added what to the Windows 10 'blue screen of death'?
  • Did Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, released in 2007, earn official UNIX certification?
  • Google bought the start-up Android Inc. in 2005. Which of these engineers co-founded it?
  • Mac OS X was built on software from which company, founded by Steve Jobs after he left Apple?
  • Put these operating system milestones in order, earliest first.
  • Select ALL of these operating systems whose source code is released under an open-source licence.
  • The name Unix began as a pun on which earlier operating system project?
  • Microsoft built MS-DOS from 86-DOS, a system it bought in 1981 from which company?
  • In what year did Ken Thompson start writing Unix at Bell Labs?