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Mainframe Trivia Contest #11
May 12, 2009

The Mainframe Trivia Contest #10 is now over. SHARE, GUIDE, and WAVV are/or were all mainframe user groups. COMMON is a midrange systems user group.

The winners of a mainframe T-shirt for correctly answering the Mainframe Trivia Contest #10 question are:

· Robert Payne: Tarrant Appraisal District, Fort Worth, Texas

· Mike Watkins: Pentagon Federal Credit Union, Chantilly, Virginia

· John Greer: Syncpoint Software, Wayne, New Jersey

Mainframe Trivia Contest #11

Possibly the best book ever written about software development was titled, “The Mythical Man- Month”. It was written by a gentleman who was very important to the development of the IBM mainframe. Who was the author?

· Bob Evans

· Gene Amdahl

· Vin Learson

· Fred Brooks

· Al Williams

 (I will randomly select three winners of this Mainframe Trivia Contest #11 who will receive the T-shirt pictured below. To participate, either answer via a Comment to this post - it will not be made public for others to see - or send me an Email to bob@mainframezone.com with Mainframe Trivia Contest #11 in the Subject line — Don’t forget to state your T-shirt size.)

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