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re: Who would you rank as more important in the history of computer development....
Posted on 8/17/20 at 8:24 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 8/17/20 at 8:24 am to RollTide1987
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while Steve Jobs was indeed a visionary, he wanted computers to be a luxury item
I think he wanted them to be more of an appliance, hence their locked down nature.
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Posted on 8/17/20 at 8:35 am to RollTide1987
This thread is proof that nerds are miserable people.
Posted on 8/17/20 at 8:35 am to RollTide1987
John Vincent Anatanosoff. I think that is how you spell his last name. He and his graduate student are way more important than either of the other two.
Posted on 8/17/20 at 8:52 am to yaboidarrell
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See my sig image.
Most folks don't know who he is without a google search and even then still don't.
His operating system is what all the tech giants use to implement their services. Google, Amazon, Facebook and most of Azure.
Posted on 8/17/20 at 8:55 am to EA6B
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The first successful portable computer was produced by Compaq
the compaq "portable" was like a suitcase. I remember repairing those in the late 80s.
This post was edited on 8/17/20 at 8:58 am
Posted on 8/17/20 at 9:05 am to hob
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His operating system is what all the tech giants use to implement their services.
Linus Torvalds?
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Nerds are miserable people
Which is why I hate "gamers" so damn much, some of the most miserable people.
Posted on 8/17/20 at 9:06 am to RollTide1987
Steve Wozniak
Posted on 8/17/20 at 9:13 am to bad93ex
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Linus Torvalds?
Yes, he was expressing his opinions of Nvidia in that photo.
Posted on 8/17/20 at 9:29 am to RollTide1987
Steve Wozniak - The Great Woz
Posted on 8/17/20 at 9:56 am to hob
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Yes, he was expressing his opinions of Nvidia in that photo.
I feel so dirty for knowing who he is
Posted on 8/17/20 at 11:11 am to LSU316
quote:Blackberry continued to outsell iPhone for years after iPhone came out. And then by the time iPhone was outselling Blackberry, Android had blown miles past both of them. People couldn't live without their Crackberries, and Android made smartphones a commodity.
He made it readily available to every person basically and made it a commodity/item that you couldn't live without.....everything you mentioned helped allow him to do that but he is the man that ran the company that made it happen.
iPhone popularized some touchscreen/multitouch gestures, but that is yet another innovation that was already decades old at the time.
Jobs has been known as a master of the Reality Distortion Field since the early 80s.
This post was edited on 8/17/20 at 11:14 am
Posted on 8/17/20 at 11:25 am to LSU316
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It's Gates because of Windows....I mean hell basically every computer you can buy other than Apple runs his software right out of the box.
I'd bet a nut the servers we access this site through run on software invented by linus torvalds. I know the android I'm typing on uses it too
Posted on 8/17/20 at 11:38 am to MoarKilometers
quote:Actually TD runs on a Windows server.
I'd bet a nut the servers we access this site through run on software invented by linus torvalds.
Posted on 8/17/20 at 11:40 am to RollTide1987
I assume you mean application development.
In terms of computer development, it would be:
-Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, the founders of INTEL.
-Ward Parkinson, Joe Parkinson, Doug Pittman and Dennis Wilson, the founders of MICRON.
-Wangfu Shen and Ng Kai Wa, the founders of CREATIVE LABS.
-Jensen Huang, Curtis Priem and Chris Malachowsky, the founders of NVIDIA.
I'm sure there's more, but without Intel, you have no motherboard or processor, without Micron, you have no memory, without Creative Labs, you have no sound, and without NVIDIA, you have no graphics.
In terms of computer development, it would be:
-Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, the founders of INTEL.
-Ward Parkinson, Joe Parkinson, Doug Pittman and Dennis Wilson, the founders of MICRON.
-Wangfu Shen and Ng Kai Wa, the founders of CREATIVE LABS.
-Jensen Huang, Curtis Priem and Chris Malachowsky, the founders of NVIDIA.
I'm sure there's more, but without Intel, you have no motherboard or processor, without Micron, you have no memory, without Creative Labs, you have no sound, and without NVIDIA, you have no graphics.
This post was edited on 8/17/20 at 11:44 am
Posted on 8/17/20 at 11:43 am to Korkstand
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Blackberry continued to outsell iPhone for years after iPhone came out.
I remember managing the Blackberry Enterprise Server for a few years but then when one of the execs wanted to have an iPhone for work, everyone wanted one.
Posted on 8/17/20 at 11:49 am to EA6B
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Douglas Engelbart who in the early 1960s invented the computer mouse, hyperlinked text, and the first graphical user interface without which windows, and Mac GUI would not exist. Jobs and Gates were marketeers, almost everything attributed to them was already invented by someone else many years prior. Wozniak could be considered a true technical innovator for hs work in data storage.
Good one. I was also coming throw out the pioneers of relational databases Like Edgar Codd and Charles Bachman. Without the storage and retrieval of data, everything else is moot.
This post was edited on 8/17/20 at 11:50 am
Posted on 8/17/20 at 12:03 pm to LSU316
quote:Yep, networking was a game-changer. Microsoft used open source code from BSD to implement it.
3.1 included networking which was a game changer.
Posted on 8/17/20 at 12:07 pm to Korkstand
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Actually TD runs on a Windows server.
That certainly explains the redirects/pop ups and hamster issues.
Posted on 8/17/20 at 12:20 pm to RollTide1987
People at Xerox who created the “desktop” display and GUI interface.
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