A little history: what Bill Gates and Steve Jobs chattered in 1991?

Posted by on November 9, 2009 | 9 comments

A little history: what Bill Gates and Steve Jobs chattered in 1991?

Verena took this picture in 1991 when Bill Gates was invited to Uncle Stephen to discuss the future of the PC. At that time Steve was CEO of Next Computers (Where did the basic architecture of MacOSX) and Pixar, the launch of Microsoft Windows 3.11 acavaba for group work. By that time Microsoft was twice rudder very interesting project Chicagom advertiser's announcement that it would be Windows 95 (promentent and features that will be fulfilled with Windows XP), and "Peter aside" ...

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Short history of mobile phone in 2 minutes

Posted by on November 3, 2008 | 1 comment

Short history of mobile phone in 2 minutes

Via the blog of Pablo Casado (Apolion) I received this video currado well that transports us to the history of mobile phone ... how many of these have passed through your hands or your friends? And maybe some has been discussed too much mobileby Evolution of telephony ...

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May 1, 44 anniversary of Basic.

Posted by on 1 May 2008 | 0 comments

May 1, 44 anniversary of Basic.

A server was a child learn to program with language, using a Sinclair ZX81 which had expanded to 16 Kbytes of RAM with a Kb motxil.la s'enxufava behind it and that caused you to have reset the processor if a given Once at the table too hard. Some authors autribueixen Bill Gates invented the Basic, but it does not ... John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College professors have designed this language in order to make it accessibe its undergraduates. They did so well that ...

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Isaac Asimov and the roots of the MacOS.

Posted by on April 6, 2008 | 1 comment

Isaac Asimov and the roots of the MacOS.

"UNIX is an operating system such as an oral tradition," Neal Stephenson In the late 60's, General Electric Company created the project Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) with the aim of creating a hardware-independent operating system to allow interoperability between computer systems. But this project failed to finish its extreme complexity. In 1969, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, two engineers who had worked on the Multics project, created the ...

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