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1 computers to personal computers

2 Xerox does it all 1973: Xerox Alto GUI wysiwyg mouse ethernet laserprinter smalltalk, impress, postscript 1979: Steve Jobs tours PARC 1981: Xerox Star

3 breaking down the computer HofI PC - 3

4 through thick and thin "What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which a fellowship could form. We knew from experience that the essence of communal computing, as supplied by remote-access, time-shared machines, is not just to type programs into a terminal instead of a keypunch, but to encourage close communication". Thompson, Ritchie, & AT&T 1965: AT&T, MIT& GE work on multics 1968: DEC's 16-bit PDP : multics to unix 1971: first unix release --Ritche HofI PC - 4

5 unix at ucb 1973: Thompson at Berkeley Bill Joy develops em editor 1977: 1BSD released 1979: 3BSD (for Vax) SCO founded 1981: 4.1BSD 1983: 4.2 BSD (with tcp/ip stack) ITS-UNIX HofI PC - 5

6 so : Reagan DoJ releases AT&T 1991: Networking release 2; 386 BSD 1992: AT&T sues UCB HofI PC - 6

7 settlement 1994 settlement: USL, UCB, Novell HofI PC - 7

8 hobbyists homebrew Jobs Wozniac Osborne business-brew Gates Allen traffic control HofI PC - 8

9 open or closed? HofI PC - 9

10 open or closed? HofI PC - 9

11 here comes microsoft Software DEC (VisiCalc) OS DEC/VAX (3BSD-Unix) Apple Sun/Solaris (AT&T-Unix) [Msoft] BIOS CPU DEC/CVAX Apple/MOS Motorola Sun/SPARC [Intel] Hardware DEC Apple Sun HofI ABH - PC 17/6/06-10

12 here comes microsoft Software DEC (VisiCalc) OS DEC/VAX (3BSD-Unix) Apple Sun/Solaris (AT&T-Unix) [Msoft] BIOS CPU DEC/CVAX Apple/MOS Motorola Sun/SPARC [Intel] Hardware DEC Apple Sun HofI ABH - PC 17/6/06-10

13 here comes microsoft Software DEC (VisiCalc) OS DEC/VAX (3BSD-Unix) Apple Sun/Solaris (AT&T-Unix) [Msoft] BIOS CPU DEC/CVAX Apple/MOS Motorola Sun/SPARC [Intel] Hardware DEC Apple Sun HofI ABH - PC 17/6/06-10

14 here comes microsoft Software DEC (VisiCalc) OS DEC/VAX (3BSD-Unix) Apple Sun/Solaris (AT&T-Unix) [Msoft] BIOS CPU DEC/CVAX Apple/MOS Motorola Sun/SPARC [Intel] Hardware DEC Apple Sun HofI ABH - PC 17/6/06-10

15 here comes microsoft Software DEC (VisiCalc) OS DEC/VAX (3BSD-Unix) Apple Sun/Solaris (AT&T-Unix) [Msoft] BIOS CPU DEC/CVAX Apple/MOS Motorola Sun/SPARC [Intel] Hardware DEC Apple Sun HofI ABH - PC 17/6/06-10

16 here comes microsoft Software DEC (VisiCalc) OS DEC/VAX (3BSD-Unix) Apple Sun/Solaris (AT&T-Unix) [Msoft] BIOS CPU DEC/CVAX Apple/MOS Motorola Sun/SPARC [Intel] Hardware DEC Apple Sun HofI ABH - PC 17/6/06-10

17 here comes microsoft Software DEC (VisiCalc) OS DEC/VAX (3BSD-Unix) Apple Sun/Solaris (AT&T-Unix) [Msoft] BIOS CPU DEC/CVAX Apple/MOS Motorola Sun/SPARC [Intel] Hardware DEC Apple Sun HofI ABH - PC 17/6/06-10

18 here comes microsoft Software DEC (VisiCalc) OS DEC/VAX (3BSD-Unix) Apple Sun/Solaris (AT&T-Unix) [Msoft] BIOS CPU DEC/CVAX Apple/MOS Motorola Sun/SPARC [Intel] Hardware DEC Apple Sun HofI ABH - PC 17/6/06-10

19 here comes microsoft Software DEC (VisiCalc) OS DEC/VAX (3BSD-Unix) Apple Sun/Solaris (AT&T-Unix) [Msoft] BIOS CPU DEC/CVAX Apple/MOS Motorola Sun/SPARC [Intel] Hardware DEC Apple Sun HofI ABH - PC 17/6/06-10

20 here comes microsoft Software DEC (VisiCalc) OS DEC/VAX (3BSD-Unix) Apple Sun/Solaris (AT&T-Unix) [Msoft] BIOS CPU DEC/CVAX Apple/MOS Motorola Sun/SPARC [Intel] Hardware DEC Apple Sun HofI ABH - PC 17/6/06-10

21 here comes microsoft Software DEC (VisiCalc) OS DEC/VAX (3BSD-Unix) Apple Sun/Solaris (AT&T-Unix) [Msoft] BIOS CPU DEC/CVAX Apple/MOS Motorola Sun/SPARC [Intel] Hardware DEC Apple Sun HofI ABH - PC 17/6/06-10

22 name recognition decline of monopoly: "nobody ever lost their job..." rise of the "PC": "compatibles" to "clones" whitebox worries Microsoft Intel & co []/OEM HofI PC - 11

23 challenges to chokehold 1982: Richard Stallman & MIT GNU 1991: Linus Torvalds, Helsinki Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. --Linus Torvalds HofI PC - 12

24 back to thin clients HofI PC - 13

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