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8. What is the origin of the Bluetooth name?

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9. Who developed the C Programming Language? When was the C Programming Language developed? At which company did the initial development of C occur? Once C was developed, which operating system was re-written in C?

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10. What is the name of the first computer virus that infected DEC PDP-10 computers in 1971? What message did it display? What is the name of the program that was written to delete this virus?

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8. Origin of the name Bluetooth: The name Bluetooth was borrowed from late 10Th Century, on the name of the king of Denmark, King Herald Bluetooth. He was famous for uniting Scandinavia(region in North Europe). To develop a wireless standard, Intel started a program called Business-RF, Ericsson had a program called MC-Link and Nokia started a program called LowPower RF. They united all these 3 and form it into one program i.e., Bluetooth.

9. C programming language was developed by Dennis M Ritchie, an employee from Bell Labs. It was started in 1960s and completed by early 1972. The publication was done in 1978. At Bell Labs, the initial development of C occured. Unix operating system was rewritten in C language because previously it was written in Assembly language that human cannot understand. After that some operation were changed to B language in UNIX but in B language, they used assembly language for expressing data types. So, C came into picture for Unix Operating System.

10. Creeper is the name of first computer virus that infected DEC PDP-10 computers in 1971. Creeper was written by Bob Thomas of BBN Technologies. It displayed a message as "I'm the creeper, catch me if u can!". Reaper is the name of the program that was written to delete this virus. In 1973, Reaper was written.

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