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- MULTICS
- MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service Developed at MIT and Bell Labs in the mid-1960s, MULTICS was the first timesharing operating system. It was also one of the first...
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- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture
- This is the 40th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (1) Almost everything you really need to know about Unix or Unics as it was first known and the open source movement can be gleaned from...
- Tags: Open Source, Multics, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- The origin of Unix
- Almost everyone thinks that Unix originated with Thomson, Ritchie, and others at Bell Labs in 1969/70, and thats correct but not true. They wrote the first code, originated many of the technologies in Unix, enunciated key design ideas were still exploring today, and demonstrated...
- Tags: Operating systems, Multics, Unix
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
Additional Resources
- The 10 biggest moments in IT history
- Missing: Tim Berners-Lee?The Mouse, and the GUI ...... without the invention of the mouse or the GUI/WYSIWYG there would not be as many users as there are today, and I would hazard a guess that it would be restricted to business applications like accounting, and Data Analysis.LudoRE: The 10...
- Tags: Mice, Strategy, Operating systems, GUI, PARC User Interface, mouse, Microsoft Corp., IT History, Xerox PARC, operating system, IBM Corp., information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Chrome OS: good for you; bad for Microsoft
- Google's latest announcement is good news for all computer users. It helps loosen Microsoft's death grip on the PC market and promises lower prices, higher reliability and smarter design. Unpacking Google's announcement This announcement was carefully calculated - not an over-caffeinated coder's late-night howl. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- What is Microsoft SiArch (and why did they hire a Sun chip guy)?
- What is Microsoft SiArch and why did they hire a Sun chip guy?just more M$ dirty deedsHiring engineeres from competitors should be banned under antitrust law.RE: What is Microsoft SiArch and why did they hire a Sun chip guy?You are so funny. Next we all should become communists and live...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Recruitment & Selection, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SiArch, chip guy, donation, Sun Microsystems Inc., chip
- Discussion threads 2009-04-09
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source CultureWhere is the open source culture in this blog entry???The Original UNIX culture was close to today's open source culture but the AT&T licence and big businesses like IBM/HP/SUN/DEC steered it away from its roots and that is why UNIX is taking...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix, open source, GPL, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-20
- McNealy's back and Obama's got him
- McNealy's back and Obama's got himSo government should go into the software business...... in order to reduce the number of jobs in the private sector, by making displacement products for its own use and that of others around the world.Which other large, essential, internationally successful business should the government compete...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, OSS, Obama, government, software
- Discussion threads 2009-01-23
- Why Linux owes (part of) its success to Microsoft
- Why Linux owes part of its success to MicrosoftFascinatingRMS was the one with the open source ideas. Not Torvalds.. Torvalds found nothing usefull for his brand new 80386. After approaching Tanenbaum and asking whether more features and support could be implemented in Minix. He came to write his own OS....
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, microkernel, RISC machine, Linux STILL, Linux, Unix, Microsoft Corp., operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-12-16
- The layered approach ... my wish for a future OS
- The layered approach ... my wish for a future OSSounds a lot like BSD to me....BSD (and therefore Mac OS/X) has much the same structure as the one you describe. Indeed this structure has some inherent advantages.However, in practice BSD doesn't have a stability or reliability advantage over Linux. Linux...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, OS Model, operating system, BSD
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Thinking about multicore and software
- Thinking about multicore and softwareThanks! NT:)RE: Thinking about multicore and softwarePaul,Provided a link to this blog on http://www.multicoreinfo.com , which is a website for resources related to multicore processors.Independent JobsIn the Enterprise, dual core makes sense for handling anti-virus, encryption, and other annoying security overhead functions. When you start...
- Tags: Network technology, open source, T2, MULTICS & PAPPL, Thinking about multicore, hardware, software
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeReading this gives me the shakes......by bringing back my days at the Chubb Institute in 1991, learning BASIC, OS JCL & COBOL. MANY hours of flow charting...WITH PENCIL & PAPER...and many more hours at a terminal trying to get what I...
- Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, data-processing, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COBOL, mainframe, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIX
- Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIXIBM, bah!I always considered AIX as the fork that broke UNIX' back. IBM was very late to the UNIX party, and instead of paying 5 bucks for a copy of SysV UNIX, they instead re-invented the wheel badly by re-writing UNIX...
- Tags: Operating systems, IBM AIX, IBM Corp., Unix, Linux, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents
- Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patentsFreakin' Lyin' Bast***s!Wow, after all the months of BS now about how open and closed source can work together - POW!!! RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES. Gates & Co. are lucky Bush & Co. believe in monopoly, otherwise the comments of that federal...
- Tags: Now Microsoft, Gates & Co., Pandora, Microsoft Corp., patent, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-05-13
- OS ranking - confusion to the nth
- OS ranking - confusion to the nthReliability and ease of useAre the two criteria that I would put at the top.Reliability should be a given, it's probably only because of Windows 3.1 that we have arrived at the absurd situation that some people are amazed at the idea of an...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-04-03
- The origin of Unix
- The origin of Unixrewriting history to suit your ideaologyreally, you have an adgenda and you've rewritten "your" version of history to suit it.no wonder no one has bothered to comment on this rubbish.Too muchI can certainly respect your admiration of Unix, both the platform and the philosophy. I've worked on...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-03-30
- "Free" as in "unfettered"
- Jorwell's comment yesterday: I still don't see what Unix has to do with it Given that many mini manufacturers were already delivering exactly what you describe back in the eighties including the smart terminals I cannot for the life of me see what...
- Tags: GNU
- Blog posts 2006-08-11
- The role of IT
- The role of ITI still don't see what Unix has to do with itGiven that many mini manufacturers were already delivering exactly what you describe back in the eighties including the smart terminals I cannot for the life of me see what the operating system has to do with anything.Trying...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, Ulm, Unix
- Discussion threads 2006-08-10
- The Office UI retraining canard
- Since the first details of the radical overhaul of the user interface in Office 2007 (er... 2007 Microsoft Office system) were revealed, I have seen numerous references to the "cost of retraining" this reinvention of the human computer interface will precipitate. Having worked with the beta for a number of...
- Tags: Microsoft Office
- Blog posts 2006-06-01
- APL, COBOL,
- APL, COBOL,GOTO "hell"APL is another example of too much rope. Something that is infinitely configurable is infinitely breakable! The ability to write an entire program on one line makes for some VERY hard to read programs. And I DO wonder about the security implications - would code audits become unmanageable?...
- Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, APL, programming language, programming, COBOL, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-04-07
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt honor and empower thy (Unix) sysadmins
- In data processing your machine operators are nobodies - essentially semi-skilled labour invisible to anyone outside the glass room. In science based computing (i.e. Unix), however, your sysadmins are the people who work with the user community to make and implement the day to day tactical decisions characterizing successful systems...
- Tags: data processing
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
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