Since the personal computer debuted in 1971, a Darwin-esque evolution process has lifted the PC from modest beginnings to its current role as an indispensable part of life in the 21st century.
Incomplete ArticleBy Anonymous on September 19, 2009, 11:00 pmYou need to mention the Amiga here. It brought the concepts of multi-tasking hardware and software, along with multimedia to the home. I expect better from NetworkWorld.
Missing linkBy Anonymous on February 13, 2009, 9:55 amNot one mention of the TRS-80? Radio Shack could have stolen the PC market if they had been able to control their corporate greed and reinvested their profits. They were the cheaper alternative to anything else and I'll bet they would have been able to hold off Apple or IBM if they had only paid more attention to their engineers. To bad for them, but the 80 at least should get an honerable mention in PC history.
Creativity through restrictionsBy Anonymous on February 12, 2009, 4:17 pmWhen PCs only had like a few KBs of memory you could still do amazingly advanced stuff. My first computer had 1 KB, and a complete text editor fitted into that. There wasn't much room for stuff to edit, but it worked.
The only way to somewhat get that kind of feeling of "creativity through restrictions" is by programming mobile phones or microcontrollers for industry automation.
I hex programmed my first computer from memory (my own memory, that is) as there was no room for even an Assembler.
I read somewhere that the complete OS for Amiga was like a few MBs, which is kind of funny as it did the same things as Windows does in GBs.
Nerd heaven...
or rather Intelligent Design?By Anonymous on February 12, 2009, 4:02 amI think in this particular case one could speak of intelligent design. :-)
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Incomplete ArticleBy Anonymous on September 19, 2009, 11:00 pmYou need to mention the Amiga here. It brought the concepts of multi-tasking hardware and software, along with multimedia to the home. I expect better from NetworkWorld.
Missing linkBy Anonymous on February 13, 2009, 9:55 amNot one mention of the TRS-80? Radio Shack could have stolen the PC market if they had been able to control their corporate greed and reinvested their profits. They were the cheaper alternative to anything else and I'll bet they would have been able to hold off Apple or IBM if they had only paid more attention to their engineers. To bad for them, but the 80 at least should get an honerable mention in PC history.
Creativity through restrictionsBy Anonymous on February 12, 2009, 4:17 pmWhen PCs only had like a few KBs of memory you could still do amazingly advanced stuff. My first computer had 1 KB, and a complete text editor fitted into that. There wasn't much room for stuff to edit, but it worked. The only way to somewhat get that kind of feeling of "creativity through restrictions" is by programming mobile phones or microcontrollers for industry automation. I hex programmed my first computer from memory (my own memory, that is) as there was no room for even an Assembler. I read somewhere that the complete OS for Amiga was like a few MBs, which is kind of funny as it did the same things as Windows does in GBs. Nerd heaven...
A little revisionist imageryBy Anonymous on February 12, 2009, 4:05 pmNotice the iPod on the hammer wielding female?
niceBy Anonymous on February 12, 2009, 1:33 pmGreat point.. though I might call it intelligently designed, rather than intelligunt desine.