Huzaif Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: "Huzaif Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Some cool FACTs abt IT industry
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:30:36 +0500
3) Steve Woznaik(sitting) and Steve Jobs of APPLE Computers.
He was three months late in filing a name for the business
because he didn't get any better name for his new company.
So one day he told to the staff: "If I'll not get better name by
5 o'clcok today, our company's name will be anything he
likes..."
so at 5 o'clcok nobody comeup with better name, and he was
eating APPLE that time...
so he keep the name of the company 'Apple Computers'
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4) Bill Hewlett(L) and Dave Packard(R) of HP.
Behind them in the picture is the famous HP Garage.
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether
the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or
Packard-Hewlett.
And the winner was NOT Bill... the winner was Dave.
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5) Ken Thompson (L)and Dennis Ritchie(R) ,creators of UNIX.
Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called
it 'New B'.
B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon
programming language (named after his wife Bonnie)
He later called it C.
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6) Larry Page(L) and Sergey Brin(R), founders of Google.
Google was originally named 'Googol'.
After founders (Stanford graduates) Sergey Brin and Larry Page
presented their project to an angel investor...
they received a cheque made out to 'Google' !...
So they kept name as GOOGLE
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7) Gordon Moore(L) and Bob Noyce(R) ,founders of Intel.
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company
'Moore Noyce'.
But that was already trademarked by a hotel chain...
So they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated
ELectronics... INTEL
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8) Andreas Bechtolsheim , Bill Joy, Scott Mc Nealy and Vinod
Khosla of SUN(StanfordUniversity Network) MicroSystems.
Founded by four StanfordUniversity buddies.
Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer;
Vinod Khosla recruited him;
Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it;
and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer...
SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network .
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9) Linus Torvalds of Linux Operating System Linus Torvalds
originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by
his OS.
Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix).
He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it
Freax (free + freak + x).
His friend Ari Lemmk encouraged Linus to upload it to a network
so it could be easily downloaded.
Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server, as he
did not like the name Freax.
Linus like that directory name and he kept the name of his new
OS to LINUX...
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