CS361: Operating System

Blaise DeCotes - Computerworld 1992

Headlines

• GUIs gaining increasing popularity and sophistication
• Users are skeptical to multiprocessors
• Windows 3.1 Released!<9D>

Modems

• Speeds up to 14,400 bits -- For the most demanding high-speed applications

370 Assembler

• Advertisement for execution trace program for assembly language programs

Windows

• Windows 3.1 contained impressive 16bit colors
• For the first time, a user could drag and drop a file
• Large usability increase

Programmer Outsourcing

• Rise of cheap programming labor overseas was a scare for some US programmers

Hackerz

• Many exploratory hackers needed defense in court
• Hackers wanted to learn in 'minute detail' how systems worked