CS361: Operating System

Jian Huang — Spring 2012

EECS | University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Brian Paul - ComputerWorld 1980

Hitting Home

--Amazon 1.0

--Use modified color TVs as monitor

 

Voice Recognition!

--Recognized 64 commands that you recorded.

--Use to dictate or recall data.

--Costs $3,000

 

Color Screens Emerge

--Massive 25in CRT screen

--1000 lines resolution

--Only $12,400 (~$35,400 today)

 

Birth of CGI

--Artists are trying to make art using computers.

--Everything turns out similar, no room for expression.

--Still have a while to go until computers are a viable solution.

 

Financial Computing

--Small town stays profitable using a computer to budget finances.

--Used to have an IBM- took hours to process and did not multitask.

 

 

Other computer uses

--Saab using a computer to prioritize parts orders.

--Searches databases for parts and automatically prints shipping labels.

 

--The digital company offers Remote troubleshooting

--Just needs a phone line

 

Better Than IBM

--Still support older IBM software

--Less hardware restrictions

--Support new features years before IBM models.

 

Hard Drives More Practical

 

IBM starts the trend away from Cobol. (DMS language)

 

Familiar Faces Arrive

--Microsoft vs Unix-based solution.

--First fully 16-bit Unix platform.

--"Just buy all our software and there will be no conflicts"


Jian Huang / EECS /UTK / revised 01/2012