The Computer Chronicles - CD ROMs (1988)

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The Computer Chronicles - CD ROMs (1988)

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@QuantumBraced 4 жыл бұрын

Kind of amazing that they had 700MB CDs when the average HDD size was like 40MB. That's like having 50TB discs now.

@AcidDaBomb 3 жыл бұрын

What the largest drive in 1988 was 20 MB or 40 MB? You could store 17 hard drives on one CD

@pocketfudgy 3 жыл бұрын

In 88 40MB hard drives were rare. 20MB was the norm for the average user

@thomasham130 2 жыл бұрын

@@pocketfudgy not only that but we're talking 386 with most ppl still using 286. Think the 486 came out in 89?

@LordHorst 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when a friend of mine had bought s hard drive that was a tad bit over 700MB big. We were amazed by the fact you could store an entire CD on it, lol.

@TuNnL Жыл бұрын

@@AcidDaBomb key word being "could" since as Gary Kildall points out in this clip, these are 'read-only' CD drives. No way for the end-user to write anything to them in 1988. 💁🏻‍♂️💿⛔

@jorgealves8319 8 жыл бұрын

Ilike watching these shows and feel like i'm living in the future

@tapfs8854 7 жыл бұрын

They make me feel like I'm back in the 80's :)

@JerryShugars 4 жыл бұрын

I remember watching all of these first run so I just feel old.

@VAX1970 4 жыл бұрын

You are it's 2020 with hover cars

@QuantumBraced 4 жыл бұрын

I feel like the opposite. They must have felt like they were living in the future in the 80s with all of this crazy new groundbreaking technology coming out every year, Moore's Law was flying. These days things haven't changed all that much since the late 2000s.

@AT-dg5wp 3 жыл бұрын

Now reading your comment you did 4 years ago. Now I feel as if I live in the future

@yaosio 6 жыл бұрын

I remember the multimedia age of CDs in the 90's. Encarta was included with every computer it seemed.

@ewouthonig371 3 жыл бұрын

Actually they tried to sell it for a ridiculous high price at first. And when that didn't work and the CD-ROMS were outdated to the max because they had been sitting in warehouses for over a year, they dumped them everywhere you looked.

@oldtwinsna8347 3 жыл бұрын

True, I recall those flashy multimedia box bundles that had sound cards and cd-rom drives, they made it seem like Microsoft invented multimedia.

@jessihawkins9116 3 ай бұрын

@@oldtwinsna8347Microsoft did invent multimedia when they came out with windows

@michaelpain 4 жыл бұрын

The leap from floppy discs to CD ROMS was huge for consumer PCs.

@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын

not really it was inevitable since cd roms had huge capacity and floppys had no capacity in comparison😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@xp8969 4 ай бұрын

@@raven4k998replied to the wrong comment

@jessihawkins9116 3 ай бұрын

@xp8969 3 ай бұрын

@@jessihawkins9116 you clearly weren't there cause everyone who lived through knows it was

@jessihawkins9116 3 ай бұрын

@@xp8969 no it wasn’t that big of a deal. we had Bernoulli disks and stuff 🥱

@TangFiend1 6 жыл бұрын

12:05 Caroline is from StarFleet.

@HockeyVictory66 4 жыл бұрын

I remember how exciting it was to be able to write to CD’s right from your desktop.

@RWL2012 3 жыл бұрын

that was about 10 years later at the earliest though

@AltimaNEO 3 жыл бұрын

Playstation games never stood a chance

@jessihawkins9116 3 ай бұрын

@@AltimaNEOI had binders full of PlayStation discs

@MA-jx6in 4 жыл бұрын

I got my first PC was a compaq 286 when I grew up out of the comodore 64..then a 486 33/66 MHz ....these things have come so far

@crowsinthenose 4 жыл бұрын

I got an 486/25 and a bit later added the SB16 with 2x CD-ROM and of course 7th Guest. Awesome stuff at the time. The sheer amount of data on a CD was almost unbelievable when floppys was the alternative.

@NineteenEightyFive Жыл бұрын

The mention of 100 gigs in 1988 is insane!

@larsfladmark2482 8 ай бұрын

I bought my first PC in 1998, 10 years later and it came with 6.4 GB hard drive. I added a 20 GB and later a third hard drive of 100GB.

@jessihawkins9116 3 ай бұрын

@@larsfladmark2482how much space do you have on it now?🤔

@larsfladmark2482 3 ай бұрын

@@jessihawkins9116 512 GB hard drive on my desktop and half that for my laptop.

@larsfladmark2482 3 ай бұрын

@@jessihawkins9116 I don't have that PC anymore.

@algomaone121 3 жыл бұрын

During the height of the CD ROM era, I didn’t think they would almost go extinct in just about 20 years! Same with DVD’s! No sooner did DVD tech become accessible to everyone, than they were clobbered within 15 years by internet streaming.

@mikemayo4812 3 жыл бұрын

My dad once told me that we will soon have no need for physical media. Whatever you want to access, they would just transmit it to you. He was spot on.

@staratelrusregion4652 2 жыл бұрын

Теперь можно контролировать передачу информации.

@looneyburgmusic 2 жыл бұрын

@@mikemayo4812 that's not remotely true yet... Before we can transition to a fully "stream" based computerized society there needs to be inexpensive universal high-bandwith Internet access. Currently, there are still large portions of the US where "Broadband" is barely 10mbs...

@mikemayo4812 2 жыл бұрын

@@looneyburgmusic ...and that'll never happen?

@looneyburgmusic 2 жыл бұрын

@@mikemayo4812 there is a very good chance it won't for a very long time

@truthteller4689 4 жыл бұрын

I remember being amazed that you could search a whole encyclopedia for a single word in less than a second!

@0raffie0 4 жыл бұрын

1 second? Not if it was on a CD-ROM

@truthteller4689 4 жыл бұрын

@@0raffie0 Yes, it was probably indexed in some way.

@danielrbsutton Жыл бұрын

@paulpm1974 Yes, I was blown away by being able to watch video on the computer when CD-ROM first came out. CD-ROM multimedia provided enough bandwidth for watchable video, not like the copper phone lines that connected computers to bulletin board systems, information services, and the Internet at the time

@guillermogutierrez710 Жыл бұрын

I see a book and wonder if there is a way to quickly search a word within, and wish to have it digital and just press Ctrl + F.

@fulkthered 8 жыл бұрын

Apple and Microsoft were playing catch up with cd's.Gary's os CP/M was using optical media long before the rest.

@0raffie0 4 жыл бұрын

lolwut

@hulksmash8159 3 жыл бұрын

@@0raffie0 You heard him.

@user-dq2fi2vc5j 3 ай бұрын

I like watching these shows!

@davebrogan7941 3 ай бұрын

I remember having a 2x cd rom drive in my gateway 2000 486 dx2 66v computer in 1994 and thinking how revolutionary and transformative the tech was! Loved my Microsoft Encarta!

@algomaone121 3 жыл бұрын

Who had fun with MYST in the 90’s ?

@shmehfleh3115 Ай бұрын

It's fun to watch them talk about selling these things to educational markets and regular households. The CD-ROM drives alone cost as much as a new car back then.

@O100111001010101 10 жыл бұрын

They nailed the EA prediction

@TangFiend1 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they kidnapped the Phillips CD-i devs. . thats why it flopped.

@AltimaNEO 3 жыл бұрын

"interactive experiences" oh man, I'm in getting 6th gen vibes

@ewouthonig371 3 жыл бұрын

Ehm no. CD-i was a major disaster. No wonder, since it was a Philips invention, and Philips has never had a clue how to market things. The nature of the product was all wrong too. Doing interactive stuff on a TV screen while the rest of your family wanted to watch TV? Good luck with that.

@jr2904 Жыл бұрын

@@ewouthonig371 the platform and games were terrible, but people played games that took up a TV have been a thing forever

@timothystevenhoward 2 жыл бұрын

Microsoft Bookshelf was one of those niche products that was such a cool idea.

@sheriffofhuddersfield 3 жыл бұрын

Computers weren't too cool when this show aired! Holy comb overs!!

@wildone106 Жыл бұрын

if it wasnt for the comb overs you wouldnt be on youtube right n ow!

@jub8891 6 жыл бұрын

i remember having a 4x cd-rom in the 90's and then for years there were cd-rom wars that gave us things like 52x and maybe higher? it was kind of funny, we'd argue with eachother about whether 2x was better than 3x.

@RWL2012 3 жыл бұрын

@LloydBonafide1 one of my schools had a few 2003-2004 "white box" PCs with 56x CD-ROM drives in them, and I'm pretty sure 60x and 72x drives were made, but I heard that anything above 36x or so is a pointless increase and mostly just spins the disc faster without any real increase in transfer speed

@AxiomofDiscord 2 жыл бұрын

@@RWL2012 I think about 24x I stop noticing the quality of my life increasing. But those single digit speeds were rough.

@timking3587 9 жыл бұрын

$1599 for a CD-ROM drive did I hear that correct lol

@theedrstrangelove 9 жыл бұрын

Tim King yes, incredible huh? i remember buying my first audio cd (brothers in arms by dire straights) in 1985. $16.98 compared to less than $8.00 for the lp. The sony CD player cost me over 900 dollars!

@hanzobi1926 9 жыл бұрын

Tim King Yep, Burners where expensive at one time too. I remember a SCSI one I bought back in 1997 for £1050 @ 2x write speed

@megabojan1993 8 жыл бұрын

+Bad Boy You can build a good gaming PC with that kind of money 1050 pounds.

@cardbored_ 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I worked as a teenager at a camp all summer to save up for a CD-ROM, this was around 1997-1998 and I purchased a 6x Creative Labs CD-ROM drive and it was about $400, my entire earnings for working that summer. So yeah, this was even quite a long time after CD-ROMS had been out/available and they were still quite expensive. I also upgraded my 486 dx2/66 from 4MB Ram to 8MB, it cost $200 to upgrade, so ram was $50 for 1MB at the time which is crazy to think you can get like 8GB of ram for that much now.

@yellowblanka6058 4 жыл бұрын

@@cardbored_ I'm assuming that was a CD Burner, IIRC CD-ROM drives (at least in the US) were not $400 in 97/98, they certainly weren't as commodity priced as they are nowadays, but I don't remember them being THAT expensive at the time.

@UnicyclDev 3 жыл бұрын

Th GUI on IBM PC’s was still years behind Apple, Xerox Star. It’s amazing how much of a lead some companies.

@ssokolow 2 жыл бұрын

As I remember, the Apple computers cost at least two thousand dollars more (in 1980s money) than the IBM offerings, and most people were buying significantly cheaper IBM-compatible clones. As for Xerox's computers, those straddled the boundary between workstations and minicomputers price-wise. (The introductory price for a Xerox Star was $16,595, which is $49,460 in 2021 dollars.) Of course they can be more impressive when they cost so much more.

@TopSecretVid 2 жыл бұрын

I have an Amiga CD32 with the Full Motion Video module.. very cool!!

@wildone106 Жыл бұрын

Im saving up for a CD-Rom player as we speak!

@SmartK8 4 жыл бұрын

Host: "1 GB!" *smirks that no one would ever need that* Me: Just downloaded 4 GB in 2 minutes.. just for a graphics demo!

@timothystevenhoward 2 жыл бұрын

here's an analogy. Imagine having new Xbox Series X launch with a 500TB hard drive. it was that same feeling of "how am I ever going to fill this up?"

@Thaleios 3 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, test drive. We had this on our family pc in glorious 4 color cgi!

@AgnostosGnostos 4 жыл бұрын

In 1988 hard disk drives were hardly affordable to any computer user. The 650 Mbyte of a CD RM should have been then more than enough for any very demanding wish. My first encounter with CD ROMs was in 1997 with my first computer and a CD recordable SCSI Philips drive. Even in 1997 the 650-700 Mbytes of CD ROMs were more than enough when most hard drives had a capacity between 1-2 gigabyte.

@algomaone121 3 жыл бұрын

Holy cow! I didn’t know the term “Hypertext” existed in the late eighties! I only leaned the term in about 1994.

@Moon___man 3 жыл бұрын

Thats what blows my mind most about this show. i guess it takes some time for some ideas to mature. most notably blew my mind was a 90s episode on virtual reality and motion tracking.. like damn i guess it took 30 years for the hardware to catch up to the idea

@AltimaNEO 3 жыл бұрын

@@Moon___man They were working on vr even as far back as the 80s. But tech was no where near ready back then.

@DarkShadowRage 11 жыл бұрын

amazing how far computing as come.

@ewouthonig371 3 жыл бұрын

Not even so much far, but how *fast* it got there.

@wallacelang1374 11 ай бұрын

My first Windows PC was a CD ROM computer system that had a built-in CD ROM disc drive. I had bought it in 1997 so the OS was actually Windows 95 on my system and its back up CD ROMs.

@it9997 11 жыл бұрын

Star Trek suit at 12:19 :)

@gochem3013 4 жыл бұрын

12:19

@ewouthonig371 3 жыл бұрын

So funny that the nerds from Microsoft suddenly seemed so dumb with their character based bullshit-application "bookshelf" when the lady with the Macintosh showed how it should be done.

@adenowirus 3 жыл бұрын

They are two different types of application. The Visual Dictionary is aimed more towards education and Bookshelf is a reference material. In case of the latter you don't need illustrations, but what comes in handy are fast load times, compatibility with text based applications, not needing too much resources (since it was meant to to be run on top of other programs), and several books worth of text crammed into one disc. What was a little silly was the ridiculously high price Microsoft demanded for this thing.

@elektronzer3809 10 ай бұрын

crazy this is 1988....im pretty sure my first experience was 1992....7th guest and Rebel Assault.

@TheStevenWhiting 11 жыл бұрын

Always have been. Jobs appeared to hate everyone and all competition all his life. Even ripping off Steve Wozniak when Wozniak coded a program for him that Steve sold for a few thousand but told Wozniak he only got a few hundred for it.

@anonUK 4 жыл бұрын

He was the Edison of his day. "That's mine, I invented that! And that! And that!" He was basically a c.... onsummate businessman. Or a total w.... ealth creator.

@xp8969 4 ай бұрын

Always have been? Wdym? WHAT always has been WHAT?

@reeffeeder 8 жыл бұрын

best comb over ever

@AltimaNEO 3 жыл бұрын

It's so thick

@unclerubo 3 жыл бұрын

Is that durable? *BANGS THE THING INTO THE DESK* absolutely...

@jmtrad1906 3 жыл бұрын

19:40

@captainkeyboard1007 Ай бұрын

This show makes me appreciate using the [desktop] microcomputer, but I discovered that the CD technology was bad for me. Lots of improvements will be needed for that digital disc and the drives to work perfectly without failures. I wish that The Computer Chronicles did not come to an end.

@Chukyka 9 жыл бұрын

soo cool new cdrom :) so many interactiv.

@ian_b 4 жыл бұрын

Sadly, Star Trek lady didn't have time to demonstrate transparent aluminium on her Mac.

@ekoheriyanto70 2 ай бұрын

Back then, i thought the future (wich is 2000 till today), the size of cd rom will be bigger like laserdisc to accomodate the higher capacity.. Never crossed my mind solid state memory is the next technology that replace optical drive...

@AuroraCityProject 10 жыл бұрын

Did she say poison di*ks ? (5:53)

@xDJxGNOMx 10 жыл бұрын

haha it really sounds like it but i think she said decks or something like that

@Jeroenske 10 жыл бұрын

Yeah it DID sound like that lol

@JaredConnell 8 жыл бұрын

hahaha roflmao!

@WhatALoadOfTosca 5 жыл бұрын

My wife just said the same thing! "Did she just say... ahem..." lol

@alasyon 4 жыл бұрын

Poisondex. But does sound like that too.

@larryk731 Жыл бұрын

I just paid $35 for a usb DVD drive to install legacy software on a new pc - times have surely changed

@Blatstein Жыл бұрын

I seem to recall early CD-ROMs had caddies? I guess that came later?

@xp8969 4 ай бұрын

Only some of them did

@vicp8772 2 жыл бұрын

Have some cdrw for sale if interested. Don't forget the audio cable from the back of the CDROM to to sound card

@johannesdolch 8 жыл бұрын

Wow that lady in blue has an amazing voice, i couldn't listen to her for more than 60 seconds without needing a coffee to stay awake. If you asked me about the sound of boredom, that's it.

@BigEightiesNewWave 4 жыл бұрын

18:41 NICE SPACESHIP BUILDING.

@ilcool90 10 жыл бұрын

Wow, first disc drives were huge

@RobCoops Жыл бұрын

The biggest product Microsoft sells in terms of data, 200MB of data, simpler times.

@cardbored_ 4 жыл бұрын

At first I thought the pin on her blue shirt was just a representation of her hair style. 15:47

@TheGreatSatan_ 4 жыл бұрын

I just came for the music

@HockeyVictory66 4 жыл бұрын

I feel like I missed out never having a subscription to CD Rom review! Did it last longer than 12 months?

@miles2378 4 жыл бұрын

When did recordable CDROM's become available for private users?

@Ojisan642 4 жыл бұрын

Christopher Bloom the early 90’s but they were expensive, then by the mid 90’s they became affordable.

@anonUK 4 жыл бұрын

I remember CD-RWs selling for about £1 a disc in about 2000, which was still above $1.50 before Brexit. They had been out for 3-4 years in quantity- and USB was something you used to attach printers and scanners to PCs. DVD-RWs are still about £1 now (which means their real value is about half of what it was then), however they are basically obsolete and CD-RWs are as dead as the wax cylinder.

@bcgibson22 3 жыл бұрын

19:39 1GB was available in 1988?

@therealhardrock 9 жыл бұрын

13:49 that was a CD-ROM drive back in 1988? That thing is big enough to be the computer

@Jurgh909 4 жыл бұрын

18:33 Sales figures just in. Total 400.000 units sold.

@jdkingsley6543 Жыл бұрын

Poisondixs? Do they not think about the names

@anwerabdallah569 3 жыл бұрын

multimedia kits sound board interface card cd drive and bunch of cds were expensive those days

@ewouthonig371 3 жыл бұрын

23:10 - "A stackable mechanism, store more than 100 gigabytes of information..." I want to step into a time machine and show them my DSLR that holds two 256 GB SD-cards. I think they'll have a heart attack when I tell them each image I take is more than 36 MB.

@thomasham130 2 жыл бұрын

Lol that would be fun. Pull out a high end gaming rig with either an i9 or ryzen CPU with 32 GB of ram and maybe a 3090 RTX, for ray trace fun. With an NVMe, ssd and and old hhd for mass storage. Maybe a nice 32" 4k monitor. Than while in the middle of explaining it all pull out your smart phone. Would be funny when they ask why does your computer have a glass side and why the lights?

@adenowirus Жыл бұрын

@@thomasham130 I don't think they would be that surprised by the glass side or the lights. Even though most computers at the time were gray boxes, more stylish machines weren't anything new. Just look at Cray and Connection Machine supercomputers.

@jr2904 Жыл бұрын

@@adenowirus yeah, but those are super computers...

@adrianhosein7698 3 жыл бұрын

Lol even back then apple was shady af 🤣🤣🤣🤣👀

@marcom1898 9 ай бұрын

My current phone has 256GB of storage!

@cardbored_ 4 жыл бұрын

20:38 bruh, yes, that's how storage works... captain obvious

@LavianoTS386 6 жыл бұрын

LGR just covered worm drives

@xFlow777 4 жыл бұрын

all this for 600 dollars looool, if some1 said something like that today, people would loose their shit

@ADDMEONPSN 3 жыл бұрын

4:11 Modern Day RockAuto

@idlehour 3 жыл бұрын

This is the first im hearing of this. No way its real too crazy to be true. Also. Does that monitor have a graphic interface or something? This is just an optical illusion .

@jeremywj 3 жыл бұрын

Boy, if there was some form of global system with a dictionary, list of poisons, audio, ... etc ... CDs would be completely unneccessary

@2crude2crudeofficialband3 6 ай бұрын

Lol. Wow. CD-i is the way of the future! 😂 it came out later than when they predicted and Philips sold it as a games console. It had plenty of great interactive applications but most of the games sucked. I used to have one. Video Speedway was awesome and so was the CD-i version of Tetris… but play Laser Lords for five minutes and you’ll understand why it failed miserably. If the VCD playback had been built-in instead of requiring a module, and still sold for the same price, maybe this thing would have gone somewhere.

@ssupertutorial 5 жыл бұрын

so basicly digilat research had invented the web browser in 1988!!

@tomasnokechtesledger1786 3 жыл бұрын

You couldn't copy the full content of a CD into your computers HD. Too big. A few of My first computer CDs was a Compton's Interactive Encyclopaedia, Forever Growing Garden and The Journeyman Project Turbo, circa 1993.

@jags861 2 жыл бұрын

All this for under $600!

@ewouthonig371 3 жыл бұрын

8:09 They really tried hard to look as nerdy as possible, didn't they?

@jmtrad1906 3 жыл бұрын

11:35 Biggest Microsoft product... 200mb. In 10 years this will be the size of Windows 98.

@GP1138 3 жыл бұрын

7:05 - someone get that cat off that poor woman's head!

@LumocolorARTnr1319 3 жыл бұрын

In 30 years they might laugh at us buying graphics cards or hard drives or whatever for 600$ in 2020

@sxpv 6 жыл бұрын

Wendy Woods

@cristiandobrescu3445 2 жыл бұрын

5:53 Poisondicks?!

@jdkingsley6543 Жыл бұрын

Lmao

@kaitoushuntaka 7 жыл бұрын

10:08...bookself yourshelf... hahahaha

@Fuzy2K 5 жыл бұрын

"Wandering around picking up books off your shelf"

@lurkerrekrul 11 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't you love to go back in time and take a PS3/Xbox360 with you? They'd probably have heart attacks. "The CD-I is expected to sell tens of millions!" Yeah, try about 1 million! What version of Test Drive is that? None of the screenshots of the various versions look that green. Even the CGA version is purple and light blue, not green.

@krokeman 4 жыл бұрын

CGA composite mode. Type in "CGA not as bad as you thought" and look for an excelent video by 8-bit guy.

@StephenKramerstevefunk 9 жыл бұрын

120k ....you going to quickly use up a lot of capacity....these guys with the optical drives are hilarious....the coke bottle glasses and the quiff on the other guy

@BigEightiesNewWave 4 жыл бұрын

used to dress up to use a PC

@StephenKramerstevefunk 9 жыл бұрын

although 100gigs was huge back then

@anonUK 6 жыл бұрын

Steve Kramer 4 gigs was the limit of the imagination, at least for non-business network developers, up until 2005 or so. Who would ever need more?

@PrzeszczepiX 5 жыл бұрын

100 GB back then was like 100 PB (100000 TB) today for us. back in 1988 a 50MB was considered a big amount of space and 1GB was really HUUUGE.

@jcherrera104 3 жыл бұрын

8:57 I didn't know Jonah Hill worked for Microsoft

@user-vg2qc2db8f Жыл бұрын

We need to go back in time and warn these geeks that Steve Jobs is going to release the iPhone in 20 years and ruin humanity.

@jr2904 Жыл бұрын

Social media and the camera phone existed before then

@powerfulaura5166 3 жыл бұрын

CDi selling tens of millions of units? lol

@anwerabdallah569 Жыл бұрын

سبحان الله كيف تطور العلم.

@700gsteak 7 жыл бұрын

I think I could mod a rpi3 in that mouse. lol

@IdealIdeas100 8 жыл бұрын

And now pcs are starting to not even include them because flash drives are significantly better.

@m9078jk3 8 жыл бұрын

As long as those flash drives are plugged in and recharged often there won't be any data loss.But for long term storage if you don't plug them in after a long while voila all your data will disappear.I've had it happen myself. At least optical storage will last for a decade or more ( more especially with professionally commercially made media rather than on home burners). If it's archival quality M disc optical media then that storage can store data safely for up to 100 to 1,000 years.

@hakemon 7 жыл бұрын

Recharged? NAND memory doesn't work like that. Please go back to learning how NAND flash storage works. This isn't like the SRAM in your Nintendo cartridges.

@ricarleite 9 жыл бұрын

19:00 one GIGABYTE! Wow... My fucking car can store more data than that.

@akiriki97 8 жыл бұрын

1GB was pretty huge back then lol

@SteveMacSticky 3 жыл бұрын

Stuart gets irritating after a while

@louistournas120 8 жыл бұрын

DOS based applications are ugly. @13:30, the Mac had the right idea. Too bad their menu is at the top and still is.

@JJJMMM1 8 жыл бұрын

+louis tournas DOS wasn't a graphical OS and the applications that you're referring to are ascii-character based. Of course they're ugly when compared to a graphical UI, be it Mac or Windows.

@ferrreira 6 жыл бұрын

I like the concept of macOS having the menu bar at the top. You can't click more than one menu at a time.

@jericoba 6 жыл бұрын

Of course it's somewhat subjective, but the menu bar at the top is a grahpic user inteface success and how well it works shows that it has survived up till this day. It's easy and very smart to keep the important menu in the same place for all applications.

@ninjasiren 3 жыл бұрын

DOS is designed as a CLI (Command Line Interface) OS. It is from 86DOS/QDOS from Seattle Computer Corporation (Bill Gates just bought it so they will have an OS for their IBM deal). And 86DOS/QDOS is a crude copy of CP/M (which is a creation by Gary Kildall of Digital Research International and the co-host of Computer Chronicles) The same OS that originally should have been the OS for the IBM PC.