Is it possible to upload part 3? Volume is WAY too low.

I used Visicalc on an Atari 800 computer. In 1985 I wrote a graphing program using both basic and assembly to strip out the numbers from Visicalc and graph the data. Made $250 by selling the program to Analog magazine.

Fun video. One topic that you wouldn't have access to is IBM engineering competence. From 85 to 87 I was on the Microsoft OS/2 kernel team doing debugger support and implementing threads (which was way fun). There were about 12 of us on the team and 65ish on IBM's team. We would hire maybe 3 or 4 of them. The kernal was all assemply language. One day a manager, Anthony, emailed a source file that was just submitted by IBM to the kernel code base. A third of the code was all push's and pop's! Which meant the programmer had know confidence in the register usage of the calls. We all had a good laugh. But seriously, I fixed a serous virtual memory bug, documented the fix and submitted it to IBM as it was in their code area. A little later I got asked by a senior IBM "designer" to explain the fix. He clearly didn't know OS fundementals. The work was fun but IBM was an anchor that kept slowing down the Kernel. They sunk their ship.

any news on part3

Pt 3 plz

HYPE

4 was the budget desktop series … never really got very far We had a 2 there, as a budget variant of 5 just briefly And I think 3 was the pro laptop 1 was the budget laptop

It can't just be me, but did anyone else have to crank the volume way up to hear this last part of the series? The first two parts sound great, but this last one sounds like the microphone was at the bottom of a toilet bowl

It's so interesting how an unscrupulous snake oil salesman became fantastically wealthy and morphed into such an honorable, altruistic, humble and selfless visionary dedicated only to the welfare of humanity. But seriously folks, the brashness that it took to take on big blue is quite impressive.

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Great Vid can we get Part 3 my man

In Soviet Russia, you do not clone komputer. Komputer clone you!

With the dead hand of management slowing the pace of innovation, had IBM cornered the PC market, today we'd all be using 486s, VGA cards, 3.5" FDDs and 14.4 kpbs modems.

I was in grad school Comp Sci in 1989-1990 and I would go to the library every week on delivery day to read InfoWorld and PC Week.

I was an ardent reader of pcweek and infoworld magazines.

People might be under the impression that once Windows was released, it took the world by storm, but plenty of users were still using DOS shells like XTree into the late 80s. It really wasn't until 3.1 that Windows started to take over, and not until Win95 that dominance was achieved.

Tandy Corporation had a runtime version of its GUI software: Deskmate. Why did Deskmate not succeed?

waiting on part 3. piss on os2 and excel

"That's a story of the next entry in this series" and when will that be released??

Subscribed just because of this series. Fantastic documentary!! Please please please keep going!!

Good subject, but so many inaccuracies!

i miss the sound of the mechanical keyboards

Sexy bill gates

Bring it on!!

Other reviews of Microsoft have just briefly described the fact that Bill Gates mother was on the board of IBM where he got an interview with the board saying that he can make a universal program to work on their computers which he didn't even own and never existed, And he Basically builts everything off of The other OS that he bought. It really feels like he only Made it so far because of his deal with IBM

My 1st computer a mu vax 1 at $7kb with 8 mb and 150 mb looks like a bargin cmpd to the crappy x86 with shiy os

It seems that your history is 3 years off. I don't remember the 386 hitting the market until 1989. And Windows 3.0 was available around 1990/1991. I remember going to the PC store with a friend to get 3.1 and this was after the first Gulf War, because we got together fir the first time in 10 years from that. war

I just got done watching both parts and I'm blown away and how detailed you are and how interesting the story is. I also appreciate the integrity that you add.

How is this so interesting?!

I swear I never knew I'd learn this much about the history of Windows. It's definitely interesting, how the system was born, how it took its first baby steps and how it evolved into the best selling operating systems ever. Very informative video, you've done great job putting it all together.

This video is so detailed, so well done and interesting.

You were a Mac user in the 90's? Man, you have my respect 🙂....and Is say that as a modern day Mac user.

You seem pretty fond of Dilbert! Have you seen the animated series?

It's a shame IBM didn't just go for UNIX.

"subsiDARIES" LOL! Good shit, bro!

This is the kind of thorough historical record I've wanted since I was pretty young and became interested in the computers of the late 20th century. I'm 20 now, but this stuff still fascinates me, years later. Thank you for the high quality documentation.

You mention these update version so many times, but how did this work pre-internet? Was there upgrade retail disks people bought or did you have to buy a whole new copy?

The recent Game Freak leaks included FileMaker Pro 5 databases containing sprites and Pokédex entries for the third-generation games.

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