The Computer Chronicles - Operating Systems (1984)

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@LionheartNh 5 жыл бұрын

If they were inside a computer today they would have to wear sunglasses because of all the RGB lights.

@victorvodka 4 жыл бұрын

ruth gay-dar binsberg, yo!

@maynnemillares 4 жыл бұрын

Stupid rgb, just increases the carbon footprint of computers without increasing performance.

@matilija 3 жыл бұрын

@@maynnemillares Eh, the power requirements for RGB is so minimal that I wouldn't be worried about it's carbon footprint, I would however worry about it's utter tackyness.

@jamesslick4790 3 жыл бұрын

It would be like friggin"😜 disco in there!

@NeilRoy 3 жыл бұрын

LMAO, nice. :D

@QuaaludeCharlie 10 жыл бұрын

Gary Kildall should have gotten more credit , I miss him , what a great guy :) QC

@Wizardofgosz 5 жыл бұрын

Gary Kildall should have benen Bill Gates. His concurrent OS's were vastly superior to MSDOS. All PC's should have shipped with them.

@kingcrimson234 4 жыл бұрын

Gary was a genius.

@HardCase1911 4 жыл бұрын

I miss Quaaludes. Forget Gary.

@mahna_mahna 4 жыл бұрын

@@Wizardofgosz That's like saying Steve Wozniak should have been Steve Jobs, just because he had all the technical prowess. But what made Jobs (for better and definitely for worse) Jobs was the characteristics he had that Woz didn't.

@Wizardofgosz 4 жыл бұрын

@@mahna_mahna jobs was a used car salesman. Woz was the talent.

@apictureoffunction Жыл бұрын

That little "standing inside the computer" bit was a pretty impressive display of green screen for a (probably) rather low budget show in the mid 80s

@x_flies Жыл бұрын

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Pretty impressive for the time.

@CHURCHISAWESUM Ай бұрын

They’re computer nerds, it’s their strong suit

@forevernow9459 13 күн бұрын

Wasn't low budget, was the major computer needs how in the day

@MultiPetercool Жыл бұрын

I actually had an interview with Gary Kildall at Digital Research around 1984 or 85. My background was UNIX Gary wasn’t a fan. Meanwhile, the Santa Cruz Operation a few miles up the coast was eating his lunch.

@marctronixx Жыл бұрын

you can see, to me, the disgust in Mr. Kildall's face when Ms. Yates was going on and on about unix. gotta say, she was on point!

@captainkeyboard1007 18 күн бұрын

Man! I wish that Gary Kildall did not die.

@WAQWBrentwood 8 жыл бұрын

"the weak point in the system seems to be the operator" ....Still the truth today!

@jesuszamora6949 8 жыл бұрын

+WAQWBrentwood Even more so than back then!

@WAQWBrentwood 8 жыл бұрын

IKR? Right?

@justincase9638 5 жыл бұрын

PICNIC!

@justincase9638 4 жыл бұрын

The problem is between the chair and the keyboard

@UmVtCg 4 жыл бұрын

The cause of most computer /IT releated incidents resides between the keyboard and the backrest of the chair.

@mbnet1184 2 жыл бұрын

This show was well ahead of it's time. It's unbelievable this show actually existed during this time.

@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын

but they also point out how the os back then didn't spy on you like windows does today

@UnicyclDev Жыл бұрын

Not really ahead of it’s time. It was of it’s time.

@navusx 9 жыл бұрын

Gary Kildall gone too soon, 52 is way too young. I miss those old timers who see computer as a tool to enhance our lives rather then $ sign.

@pauls640 6 жыл бұрын

He died in '94, but the circumstances are not clear. Apparently a fight in a bar, hit his dead and died a few days later.

@justincase9638 5 жыл бұрын

OMG you said a mouthful. We're way past work enhancement tools era.

@Blake4014 4 жыл бұрын

@@justincase9638 yes, next step, robotic AI..... we're moving fast, the new frontier is here.

@kenmeade9924 3 жыл бұрын

@@pauls640 sad, I did not realise life hit him so hard, the tactics used by the likes of microsoft no doubt not helping, that he apparently became an alcoholic.. Big business has a lot to answer for.

@ryanfrazier961 4 жыл бұрын

watching these old episodes makes me want to learn more about computers

@raven4k998 3 жыл бұрын

did you get the warning about two men inside your computer??

@wolvenar 3 жыл бұрын

There is SO much for you to learn. So much you probably never will through a college unless you're spending more than you will probably make in a lifetime on school. You need to find us old timers to really learn stuff like they hint at in these videos. It's a great place to start at that. Yes I know that this is an old post but maybe this comment is still useful.

@Amalekites 3 жыл бұрын

@@raven4k998 Well, at least that's better than Intel inside. 😜

@bryanthebryan2638 2 жыл бұрын

Totally. It’s like watching the foundation of modern life bring birthed. I love this program.

@OpenGL4ever Жыл бұрын

Then go and read a book from Andrew Tanenbaum about computer architectures. Als buy a book about operating systems from the same author. You will not regret it.

@angrykermit3192 4 жыл бұрын

3:00 not gonna lie, the integration of the two guys into the motherboard is pretty seamless.

@JasonZakrajsek 3 жыл бұрын

I was impressed by that. Some of the shots aren’t great by today’s standards but I’m trying to figure out how much of that was built and how much was something like rear projection.

@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka Жыл бұрын

@@JasonZakrajsek Same !

@acmenipponair Жыл бұрын

Well, it's seamless, because they LITERALLY build a computer in their size! Yes, it's not some bluescreen technology, you can see it when Stuart is standing on the CPU. They build that mainboard in man size in the studio. That was the most practical way to do such stuff in that time and the most cost effective (it's all just normal wood boxes painted so that they look like chips and cardboards that look like the controller card etc.

@gblargg Жыл бұрын

@@acmenipponair I think it was all a green screen, with some small green platforms. And somehow they had some text on the ground so they knew where to point. The initial card he walks from behind would have been a green divider.

@acmenipponair Жыл бұрын

@@gblargg We are talking about the year 1984! Not some production in the 1990s or 2000s. In 1984 computers and also TV equipment wasn't good enough for such stuff yet.

@RetroRoberino 8 ай бұрын

Herb Lechner - What a man! This guy had such an amazing voice!

@theserpentes 7 ай бұрын

Lot of things shown and stated in the video, that people don't realize at first hand. 1) The operating system doesn't have any kind user interface. It is responsible to make the user interfaces to work, is it then a physical like keyboard, or visual like something on the display. It is the software that is hidden, under the hood like a car engine when person is driving a car. The terminal, command line etc ain't part of the OS at all, but standalone programs run by the OS. And all together builds a "System Software". 2) The operating system is what makes possible to run same program on different computer, or multiple programs same time on the same computer. Without operating system, user would be required to run each program separately on the computer, output the data somewhere and then start to run another program and input data to it. And to do something else same time was impossible. 3) The word "terminal" is literally the physical computer terminal. You had one display method (printer, monitor, lights) and one input method (keyboard). And you needed as many terminals as you had programs running on computer or people working. The "virtual terminal" that is represented here is exactly as the word says, a one computer but you can switch between like you would switch computer terminals physically walking on front of another one. And this is still active in Unix like machines where it is called TTY (TeleTYpe).

@pcuser80 4 жыл бұрын

They are talking about unix and xenix. Linus Torvalds was then 15 years old..

@themaritimegirl Жыл бұрын

Stewart said in a 2016 VCF keynote that the "inside an Apple II" demonstration was one of his favorite things that he ever did on the show :)

@patrikfloding7985 11 ай бұрын

It was extremely well done, especially for the era!

@Fri13. 7 ай бұрын

Very well done, considering that they had a bluescreened room, and then imposed the background image on the camera to set all the additional support boxes (the microprocessors, to step on and kneel) and then mark the locations of the parts to point at and talk about. And then run the whole script to explain these imagery parts 😀 While technologically not so impressive considering the used method (and how done in example weather forecasts for TV) the illustration was to the point.

@intrinia2832 7 жыл бұрын

Poor Gary, RIP, we will remeber you.

@tommybasham-oo7qf 6 жыл бұрын

Intrinia Studios, what's remeber mean? is that pig Latin? REMEMBER REMEMBER REMEMBER

@Citizen_Se7en 8 жыл бұрын

UNIX/Linux: after more than thirty years, they're still the backbone of the modern Internet.

@jesuszamora6949 8 жыл бұрын

+Ray N I wish there was more of a push into the home market. It'd be nice to have a major alternative to Windows and Mac.

@ArumesYT 5 жыл бұрын

@Ray N People who don't believe you are right. OSX is NOT Unix. It's NOT Linux. It may be POSIX compliant, but that doesn't mean it's the same OS.

@ArumesYT 5 жыл бұрын

@Ray N No, it's POSIX compliant. And there's no such thing as a "Linux command".

@ArumesYT 5 жыл бұрын

@Ray N Unix is a POSIX compliant OS. So is BSD, Linux, HP-UX, OSX, etc. That doesn't mean OSX is Unix. You're saying that a Ferrari is a sportscar, a Porsche is a sportscar, and therefor a Ferrari is a Porsche. That's bullshit.

@ArumesYT 5 жыл бұрын

@Ray N It proves that the systems are somewhat compatible. Not that they're the same. I can put the same fuel that a Ferrari uses in a Porsche and the Porsche will run just fine. Doesn't mean it's the same car.

@Nunavuter1 Жыл бұрын

Poor Gary Kildall. His CP/M OS was basically was what DOS was. When Stewart is sitting on the left side of the table, and Gary is sitting on the right -- that means Gary Kildall is a tech guest and not a co-host.

@Legal-104 3 жыл бұрын

I love this show, it's so calming and interesting

@spladam3845 Жыл бұрын

It's my afternoon de-compression comfort food now.

@montanacorp 8 жыл бұрын

i love the part they are inside the computer

@Daehawk 8 жыл бұрын

+Tony Montana I know! I always loved that stuff. Lets see...I was 15 in 1984 lol..would have drooled for this ep.

@kz1000ps 7 жыл бұрын

For 1984, that green screen work is absolutely top notch and still looks pretty damn decent today!

@rmnts 7 жыл бұрын

DOS ERROR! TWO MEN INSIDE LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL can't stop laughing

@justincase9638 4 жыл бұрын

Was that a computer or the inside of an abacus?

@StellaSteve80 4 жыл бұрын

Back in those days the green screen was blue! Amazing how far we've come!

@videosuperhighway7655 3 жыл бұрын

Back when computers were big enough that you could get inside of them.

@sputukgmail 8 жыл бұрын

CPM was the first 'proper' operating system I experienced - while still at school. I'd used a Commodor PET first, but that was single user. The school had an RML 380z which was the 'posh' computer but it was only when they got a whole room of RML 480z and a 20MB Winchester drive system that I got to experience a multi-user system. I learned a lot from taking that OS 'apart' by debugging the Z80 code and reverse engineering understanding what it was doing without any documentation and just a vague understanding of the principles which stood me in good stead when I got to uni to learn the theory behind OS etc. So, I owe Gary Kildall a lot, although I didn't know it at the time.

@Chordonblue 3 жыл бұрын

There's a lot of unsung heroes that I only learned about as an adult. As a kid with an interest in computers, I would have loved to have had this kind of history and information available.

@jessihawkins9116 Жыл бұрын

i don’t know what any of that crap is or what you just said bruh 😂

@sputukgmail Жыл бұрын

@@jessihawkins9116 “just said”? It was 7 years ago! Lol. Confused me as I can’t even remember writing it now!

@rossimarti 9 ай бұрын

True. Don't study MS-DOS as the 'right' way. Study CPM.

@MontegaB Жыл бұрын

That Jean Yates gal was great on this episode. A couple of years after this aired she left technology entirely and didn't look back. Really interesting.

@JeroenPut Жыл бұрын

Where can I find information on her?

@azynkron 10 жыл бұрын

It might seem old, but the explanation of how the CMOS, BIOS, CPU, RAM and Disk works is still valid. It hasn't changed that much more than that the modern I/O units are more intelligent and faster. In a way it was easier back than but also harder. If you knew what you were doing, you set things up exactly how you wanted it to work. Then again, no one or nothing held your hand. There was no Google to tell you what to do and usually, if you were a home user, you had to reside to computer magazines with articles which sometimes came with floppy disks that had shareware or other software on them.

@maboroshi1986 9 жыл бұрын

there's an episode on plug and play from the 90's, there's a demo of adding a sound card to a PC, the spokesman (a self confessed expert) said it took about 3 days to get it in and properly configured because of IRQ and memory conflicts. of course now all you really need to do is plug it in and the OS will do the rest

@goyabee3200 9 жыл бұрын

Documentation was MUCH better in the 80s. At least it seems so to me, maybe that's only because systems were simpler.

@dog942 8 жыл бұрын

+azynkron It was like working on a car, you got your buddies together and some beer then figured the shit out. You had magazines and manuals and shit. The big difference is complexity. I could rebuild a commodore 64 motherboard that has intact chips on a workbench, but a MSI M99? not a snowballs chance in hell.

@sputukgmail 8 жыл бұрын

My experience of the documentation of the 80s was that it was awful, but lots of it, and it was all you had so you had to cope with it and you didn't know any better. I remember wasting days trying to figure some things out before realising that the documentation was wrong. As an example, one OS function call which actually returned it's results in the opposite order to what the documentation said it did.

@sputukgmail 8 жыл бұрын

Yep, I used to build bespoke computers for customers in the early 90s before plug and play and used to often take a number of days to make sure everything was configured correctly, and particularly, optimising the driver loading to maximise the available memory. I remember getting the 'bible' on how to build computers ready for plug and play from Microsoft about a year before Windows 95 was released and before the early pre-release versions were even available and having to explain to the company owner why we needed to start using different/newer/more expensive multi I/o cards so that the parallel ports would support the new standards as well as 'configuring themselves' - which felt like black magic the first time we actually got the Win 95 beta and a new motherboard and cards and it all 'just worked''. The amazement didn't last long as in the early days, plug and play quickly earned a reputation to be plug and pray. Ah, fun times - now the frustration is a distant memory :)

@LordMazafeff Жыл бұрын

Remember when Tech-bros were calm, soft-spoken people in suits?

@forevernow9459 13 күн бұрын

Now they wear Mario kart shirts and watch anime religiously

@OldAussieAds 7 жыл бұрын

I find it fascinating how Gary Kildall was able to separate himself as Kildall the computer enthusiast and Kildall the CEO of DR. By the time this episode aired, he most likely already saw the writing on the wall for CP/M, but he didn't crack like I would have done. And is it just me or does that HP / MS DOS guy seem a bit smug? I'm sure that's not the case and I'm reading too much into it.

@PigDogBay 4 жыл бұрын

Gary showed great restraint, I would have ticked the smug MSDOS guy off considering it was a rip off of CPM.

@blackneos940 4 жыл бұрын

@MichaelKingsfordGray Give us your I.P. Address, Social, all your Passwords, and all your keys. Coward.

@kenmeade9924 3 жыл бұрын

@MichaelKingsfordGray There is good reason for why social media networks (some even force) require real names - and its not a good one.

@ryleitdept Жыл бұрын

I was thinking, those looks seems familiar for the ms dos guy, then I googled Abraham Lincoln.

@spladam3845 Жыл бұрын

The HP guy looks nervous, he tries to pass questions off to the other guest, it kind of seems like he feels out of his league, but there are some very smart folks in that room.

@FlyboyHelosim 9 ай бұрын

Probably the only episode of The Computer Chronicles where Cheifet doesn't keep cutting guests off and hurrying them up.

@RUFU58 4 жыл бұрын

I actually think that part where they were inside the computer - was actually a really great and simple way of explaining how a computer works, and the BIOS - yes the cables and cards look different today, but it still all works exactly the same. These videos are really great I cannot get enough of them at the moment! 👍

@raven4k998 3 жыл бұрын

did you get the two men inside your computer warning yet I did and didn't care I figured they would avoid getting electrocuted

@AndrewKamenMusic 3 жыл бұрын

2:23 is the most intuitive way of explaining how computers work (that ive seen). Such a great idea - to expand everything to a large scale so the student feels as if they’re walking through a small museum. This should be replicated in a modern context. Would also work really well for biology/chemistry/etc.

@274pacific 3 жыл бұрын

If there's one thing that can be said of early computing, is that users *knew* what the machine was doing moreso than they do now. Most people's experience with computing these days is of an impenetrable slab of aluminum, not know what's even inside, let alone what it does.

@yelapa999 10 ай бұрын

Sitting in front of a new MacBook Air, I hear yaz! I made a great career in semiconductors and then computers in the late 70's and all of the 80's. Watched every episode in real time, I think. I wonder if the present generation could follow any of this.

@x_flies Жыл бұрын

Those old keyboard clicks are beautiful.

@ericinla65 11 ай бұрын

Mechanical Keyboard - Which can still be puchased.

@x_flies 11 ай бұрын

@@ericinla65 I know. My first computer was a Commodore 64.

@TenOfZero1 9 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for sharing these !!! To understand the future, you must understand the past. :-)

@raven4k998 3 жыл бұрын

if that is true then build an apple 2gs I dare ya and yes they still make the chips for that computer even today trust me you'll learn alot from doing it

@forevernow9459 13 күн бұрын

@@raven4k998Exactly, older computers done it best in my opinion. Most of this new crew wouldn't understand anything about programming or computers back in the golden ages

@raven4k998 13 күн бұрын

@@forevernow9459 I know there's one kid that bitches about computers not being able to do division just because arm can't do it and I am like seriously nope any x86 can do division even the old Pentiums though some had a glitch with it but meh oh well they eventually fixed it

@gregskuza7166 3 жыл бұрын

I love these tv shows, especially the old ones... This were such a magical times!

@NickMurray Жыл бұрын

The eye glasses in this episode are particularly outstanding! Seeing Gary Kildall (killed age 52) reminds me that the police never uncovered any answers with regards to his death, 'fell on the floor in a biker bar' sad end to a man that such an impact on the world around us. I guess stay out of biker bars.

@ghost-user559 Жыл бұрын

No. Stay away from Gill Bates

@kirk1968 Жыл бұрын

What an exciting time that was, when home computers were relatively new and there were so many possibilities and ideas. My high school self was excited for the future. Now, not so much.

@rickybobby7276 4 ай бұрын

Yea not much has changed for computers in the last 10 years just better graphics so maybe if you're a hardcore gamer it's progressed, but you can't do anything that you couldn't before. Super boring. Same thing with phones. Last 5 years no progress other than yet again better graphics for cameras and screen resolution, but no new functionality.

@kirk1968 4 ай бұрын

@@rickybobby7276 Well said, totally agree. Tech stagnation 🙄

@griff404 2 ай бұрын

also when we're young we're naturally hopeful for the future. now, you're not so much considering you were a high schooler in the 80's. 30 years from today you might not even be alive so whats to be hopeful for. same for me. But there's still things to be excited about today if you're young. we're both not so much anymore. hope is a young people thing.

@mattdeman5200 Жыл бұрын

Stuart’s hair was on point

@gstcomputing65 4 жыл бұрын

27:35 Don't tell Herb that I didn't read chapter 8 back in 1984, I just skimmed through it.

@jamessheppard4372 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@SirDimpls 9 жыл бұрын

20:56 "Microsoft has purchased UNIX source code and has fixed it" Of course they did. Having a blast watching this series! Thanks for uploading to preserve this precious history :D I'd be in love with this show and wouldn't miss an episode if I lived back then.

@RonJohn63 9 жыл бұрын

***** The Unix filesystem was *really* fragile back then, and MS made it more robust.

@raydeen2k 7 жыл бұрын

I'll never understand why they had at their disposal a tried and tested, secure OS, and just said 'Feck it. We can do it SOOOOOOO much better!'. Apple 'Thinks Different' because they can. MS 'Thinks Stupid' because they can. Unix/Linux/BSD developers don't just think. They Do what they must because they can.

@BlownMacTruck 4 жыл бұрын

raydeen2k Your comment makes no sense, especially since MacOS is based on a Unix kernel and utilized a huge chunk of open source components both in kernel space and user space.

@sagepro4091 4 жыл бұрын

They haven't in the sense you think. They just opened a new architecture brand in the code to allow it be compatible with personal computers. It was called Xenix. Many other companies did ports . The most known being BSD and MacOS.

@williamblount5199 2 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile, in Finland...

@count69 Жыл бұрын

"There has yet to emerge a standard that the entire industry is willing to endorse"

@rcollins0618 10 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad I found these! So awesome!!!

@NeilRoy 3 жыл бұрын

I grew up watching this show. Loved it and learned a lot from this as well as Bits and Bytes (my favourite).

@fpulsipher 6 жыл бұрын

I love this program! I watch during lunch and enjoy all the memories it brings to mind.

@DrTibbs 8 жыл бұрын

Gary kildall worked hard and actually created something, while everyone else worked hard and actually stole Gary's work. sadly this is still true today, no OS will ever be as fast, as transparent(ACTUALLY SHOWS EVERYTHING), or as cool as CP/M.

@rabidbigdog 7 жыл бұрын

Kildall himself said CP/M was influenced by Digital's TOPS-10. Computing ideas rarely have single sources, but I agree Kildall was a leader and innovator probably under-appreciated by those in the field.

@DrTibbs 7 жыл бұрын

yea i get whatcha mean, but its like getting inspired to do better, and making something from nothing is a whole lot less douche bag than making up a plan to buy what was already made and adding what was already in there to it over years. if bill gates was smart he would have made a new operating system instead of hiding the old one under pretty pictures and sprites.

@ArumesYT 5 жыл бұрын

Right. "Everyone else worked hard and actually stole Gary's work." Of all videos to post that comment under, you pick a comparison to Unix which was created well before Gary even THOUGHT about CP/M. Well done. Idiot.

@brberis 3 жыл бұрын

“Warning! Two men inside” hilarious

@fitfogey Жыл бұрын

Gary was an admitted drinker. He hated getting to the show so early in the morning because he was still recovering from the night before. The fact that he was still so brilliant is just incredible.

@LabyrinthMole Жыл бұрын

I'd be a drinker, too, if I lost an IBM contract to a pirated copy of my life's work. By the way, what motivated you to make such an asinine comment?

@JoePlett Жыл бұрын

Delightfully quaint, yet brilliant & insightful in its day. Thanks for preserving this priceless piece of history.

@Mtd6 3 жыл бұрын

I have have laughed too much at "2 guys inside the computer" error message

@aliren6118 3 жыл бұрын

19:31 badass smile and mic drop. Feel bad for the CP/M MS/DOS boys after being compared to Unix like that.

@jonathanwei2477 10 ай бұрын

that bluescreen effect for the 1980s is quite well done

@TheStevenWhiting 5 жыл бұрын

Its mad that CPM had multitasking back then but DOS didn't yet DOS took off more.

@TheStevenWhiting 3 жыл бұрын

@SteelRodent Not fully accurate. A deal came about where they'd includ both and let the consumer decide. However IBM did a dirty thing of, I forget the exact figures, selling DOS for $50 and CP/M for $100 so of course everyone picked the cheaper option

@firstlast9198 3 жыл бұрын

@SteelRodent - his wife divorced him after the IBM deal went bad.

@HockeyVictory66 4 жыл бұрын

Gary was smarter than Gates and far less of a nerd. He was more of a renegade like Richard Branson and that type of personality wasn’t appreciated in the operating system world back then. Gary got rich selling to Novell but became a raging alcoholic and died of a suspicious head injury at age 52 after drinking at a biker bar in Northern California. Tragic.

@randywatson8347 10 жыл бұрын

Haha the editing öf two people on a mainboard was kinda funny . It's very educational.

@wohlhabendermanager 3 жыл бұрын

What a coincidence. I started watching this show last week, and in this month's issue of German computer mag "c't" (more precisely: The "retro" edition), there's an article about Gary Kildall and CP/M, and how ground breaking it was. Apparently what ultimately led to it's downfall was that it was TOO modular (which meant that it wasn't easy to trade disks between computers, as there was no clear standard on how 5.25" disks should be formatted) and it was missing a hierarchical directory structure, which MS-DOS had, and which was that much more convenient than switching between up 16 user spaces, just to find a specific file.

@OpenGL4ever Жыл бұрын

You should also read about DR-DOS. That's what CP/M was transformed into to offer a competitive DOS System to MS-DOS.

@Nick_R_ Жыл бұрын

What a great episode!

@AlyxxTheRat 10 жыл бұрын

I find they are exceptionally educational for anyone interested in learning about how computers have evolved.

@justincase9638 5 жыл бұрын

2018 update - Several operating systems lead the pack, no single OS has complete dominance, Microsoft Windows, Apple OS, Linux, are all alive and well. The OS of modern micro computers still provide the 7 functions listed in this chronicle, and due to the evolution of networked computers, "the Internet" and applications running on OS agnostic internet based HTML5 has cleverly worked around and worked with the variants of OS. It appears no single standard will emerge in the near future even in 2018

@oldtwinsna8347 4 жыл бұрын

not quite. windows has overwhelming lock on enterprise computing.

@BlownMacTruck 4 жыл бұрын

What? I don’t like Windows, but it’s by far the dominant desktop OS. It’s not even close. While plenty of functionality is online now, it’s delusional to think that Windows is not by far and large way ahead of everything else in the desktop OS consumer world.

@maynnemillares 4 жыл бұрын

Linux is dominant, the only segment where it is a minority is with desktops and laptops.

@ironfist7789 Жыл бұрын

@@maynnemillares yup and people forget about NAS and routers, switches, iot devices, etc that they don't realize they are using

@rickybobby7276 4 ай бұрын

OS's have a Duopoly like Coke and Pepsi. Everything is either windows or linux. All those web applications are hosted on one of the Duopoly's so it's still there. It's actually gotten worse, because of all the eating up of small startups even within services there are only a few major players e.g. Google that buys every possible competitor before they can grow and compete.

@Nine-Signs 4 жыл бұрын

re the segment inside the computer, that was an incredibly advanced bit of work for its day, very impressive how well they matched to the objects they werte interacting with to their movements.

@AnimalFacts 5 жыл бұрын

Ahhh, back when computers were actually exciting.

@raven4k998 3 жыл бұрын

warning two man are inside your computer run with care sir

@vaportrails7943 4 жыл бұрын

Notice they don't even talk about GUIs. The Macintosh had already been announced, and Windows came the next year. At this point, "serious" computer people thought GUIs were a novelty for amateurs that would never catch on. Which is why Jobs and Gates became billionaires.

@rocsaltjohn 8 жыл бұрын

Hard to remember a time when "calendar" was such a big deal...but it was.

@ajeeli_travels 7 жыл бұрын

Lol, so true.

@jesuszamora6949 8 жыл бұрын

2:20 -That is SO classic PBS! I love it!

@rossimarti 9 ай бұрын

Tribute to Gary. I'm thrilled that he could do this show, meet people, and see products!

@plastique45 Жыл бұрын

They both have epic combovers!

@kumunoynimanoy5400 3 жыл бұрын

I like it when they ask, "what ia the diff between MsDOS and CP/M?" Msdos is cp/m clone 16bit! Hahaha

@rooneye 3 жыл бұрын

lol Stuart asks him how DOS is different from CP/M and he just basically lists all the ways they're the same...

@christianoquissak9430 4 жыл бұрын

it still deserves a “BRAVO” in 2020!!!!!

@Drago1995 7 жыл бұрын

2:19 that was so well done :O

@MALEP76 3 жыл бұрын

Susan Boyle from UNIX....

@jacoblessing7929 4 жыл бұрын

"We all deal with operating systems, but frankly not many of us understand what it is." Well, it's nice to see some things _haven't_ changed...

@maynnemillares 4 жыл бұрын

Linux is open source, you can download its sourcecode since 1991.

@VintageModernRemixes 11 ай бұрын

When my mom would give me crap about electrocuting myself when working on my computers, I would always just say "but it's only 12 volts!" The engineer says this at 3:30 and I feel so vindicated

@PhoenixNL72-DEGA- 4 жыл бұрын

Biggest mistake of Gary Kildall was not to jump when IBM came to him looking for an operating system for the IBM PC XT years before. He could have been what Bill Gates became instead.

@elimgarak3597 Жыл бұрын

To be fair, Bill Gates approached him, not IBM directly. Because Kildall turned down the offer, they went with Tim Paterson, which isn't nearly as rich or famous as Bill Gates. So no, it wouldn't have made that much difference for Kildall, he wouldn't have been what Gates became at all. Another key fact here: Gate's mom was part of IBM's board at the time. Bill, and no one else, had almost guaranteed success in this story from the start. Let that sink in...

@captainkeyboard1007 18 күн бұрын

As a fan of microcomputers, this show was made for me.

@haraldhwick 6 жыл бұрын

was this a kids show back in the day? this is awesome.

@thealaskan1635 5 жыл бұрын

This was for any age. It tried to be novice friendly

@TheMartianMancumpster 10 ай бұрын

As someone whos in college for computer science i find this show fascinating, I can follow along pretty easy because the fundementals back then are a lot like the same concepts used now

@martysk8r 3 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile in 1984... Journey, Van Halen, Bon Jovi were touring. This computer stuff was not mainstream...yet.

@xretrobox4203 4 жыл бұрын

If they brought this back i would still watch it. It would be better than reality tv trash.

@kingsuperbus4617 2 жыл бұрын

in metaverse i wanna live in 1984

@dimitrioskalfakis Жыл бұрын

more illuminating than today's nonexistent tv lessons.

@monkeyrobotsinc.9875 4 жыл бұрын

Damn, love that edm.

@jefferee2002 2 жыл бұрын

This must have been before Macintosh was released

@Leofwine Жыл бұрын

If the episode was made/aired before January 24th of 1984, yes. They made an episode about the Mac just a year later.

@Amalekites 3 жыл бұрын

2:31 He's looking at his imaginary watch... what a magician!

@geemailMossman 9 жыл бұрын

gary was a gent. not so with the guys who "won"

@kingcrimson234 4 жыл бұрын

It's the cutthroats who end up winning. The Gates, Jobs, and Trumps of the world. But Gary was a great guy who contributed a ton to the early years of computing, things that still have impact reaching into today, and it's a pleasure to watch him on these Computer Chronicles episodes.

@Libertyjack1 4 жыл бұрын

@@kingcrimson234 Gates and Kobe, yes. Trump just inherited Manhattan.

@maynnemillares 4 жыл бұрын

MS-DOS was a modified QDOS which in itself was a crude rip-off of CP/M. That is why most people are stuck with drive letters to represent storage, terrible rip-off system. The Unix-way of describing drives makes more sense.

@IkarusKommt 3 жыл бұрын

Unix-way of describing drives is... none? A random filesystem path tells nothing of a storage device, and not being able to move/link between two directories is confusing. Drive letters clearly separate filesystems and give the information of the drive type, its availability, etc.

@Tolppu Жыл бұрын

why not today isn't these kind of tv :(???

@UncleKennysPlace 4 жыл бұрын

I remember running GEM on an Amstrad, five years before Windows.

@bitcoinbusker 3 жыл бұрын

An Incredible level of detail was put into making a human sized computer to walk around in.......

@PaulHojda 2 жыл бұрын

It was probably green screen

@marctronixx Жыл бұрын

@@PaulHojda correct. a trained eye can see the compositing artifacts around the men as they were in the scene. plus the front lighting that was obvious when the mac guy was "writing" on the clip board.

@erichkohl9317 Жыл бұрын

Bruce Tognazzini!! I remember first seeing his name on Apple II programs like BRICK OUT and the APPLE PRESENTS APPLE demo disk.

@cristianm7097 Жыл бұрын

When HP still meant something and treated employees like human beings.

@Libertyjack1 4 жыл бұрын

The early 80s were a kind of 'hippy in a suit' period, especially amongst the Boomers. These were people that, a few years earlier, wouldn't be caught dead in a suit, especially with a tie.

@vaportrails7943 4 жыл бұрын

Right. This is when they started being called "yuppies". A play on "hippie", meaning "young upwardly mobile urban professional".

@RobinHood-yk8og 4 жыл бұрын

Battle of the dignified combover

@common_c3nts Жыл бұрын

Gary was awesome, made multiple consoles on one machine. That is something MSDOS never copied.

@johnsenchak1428 Жыл бұрын

Kildall was a very intelligent man, he was thinking about multi-tasting way before Bill Gates created Windows

@BoothTheGrey Жыл бұрын

I dont think that you can make a ranking for intelligence about all the many computer pioneers in the 1970s and 1980s. Kildall was one of them and definitely an important one. But our world is capitalistic. That means to be a really successful business leader you have to be very lucky, verry charismatic or very ruthless. Gary clearly was not ruthless. And probably he was not too charismatic in terms of selling stuff - more in explaining and teaching stuff. Jobs wasnt a teacher but a great sales man... and someone who could push his workforce with both charismatic and ruthless attitude. Gates was a really ruthless salesman on the market. He used any possible business behaviour to create advantages for his company and disadvantages for others. Folks like Kildall would need a lot luck to compete on such a level in our business world. What we could ask ourselves: Is this the business world we all want? Do we want people like Gates be more successful than people like Kildall?

@NightSprinter 4 жыл бұрын

Taking notes, as I know this is going to be on a pop quiz at any time.

@scottandrew8906 3 жыл бұрын

As a human whose dad was in this industry at the exact time of this, it honestly annoys me somehow. Have a life outside of technology. The only advice I can give.

@hajow9303 3 жыл бұрын

EPIC Combover!

@meamadam 5 ай бұрын

The early episodes, like 1983 and 1984, were a lot more formal and it was more like a class, like Herb Lechner explaning what an operating system does and to read Chapter Eight. The later episodes were a lot more formal and you can tell that there probably was no chapters to read. I like the Windows '95 and the Windows '98 episodes. Nobody asked you to read from a textbook in those episodes.

@calvinsaxon5822 4 жыл бұрын

"Be sure to read chapter 8 in your text. In the next lesson..." Wait. This is a class? Now I'm going to have anxiety dreams about taking a test when I haven't been in class the whole semester.

@SkySim Жыл бұрын

Gary and Tony look like brothers.

@jcherrera104 4 жыл бұрын

Those glasses on that guy @ 5:00 . it is funny cause ten years ago you couldnt find someone trying to wear them but today 2019 all these kids are rocking them lol

@oldtwinsna8347 2 жыл бұрын

oversized glass works great for peripheral vision.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 6 жыл бұрын

2:35 Tog! Long-time UI guy. Ran the “Ask Tog” column in one of Apple’s developer publications, and I have the book of his compiled columns.

@procactus9109 7 жыл бұрын

A modern operating system is a program just like any other, It allows certain functions for the user and claims resources before anything else the user wants to do.

@raven4k998 3 жыл бұрын

do you use cpm I hear it's the best os or are you more of a MS DOS guy?

@procactus9109 3 жыл бұрын

@@raven4k998 MSDOS. But only from ignorance

@raven4k998 3 жыл бұрын

@@procactus9109 yeah MS DOS was the os of choice back then for many

@omegaman1409 10 ай бұрын

It will be another 8 years before I got my hands on a pc computer and hearing about an os. Mostly because it was cost prohibitive. The rest of us ended up with a Commodore which was really like playing games.