A Whirlwind History of Operating Systems
To understand the way modern operating systems are the way they are, it
is useful to examine their evolution over the last almost eighty years.
Advances in operating systems often accompanied advances in hardware,
falling prices, and "exploding" capacities.
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The first true digital computer was designed by English mathematician
Charles Babbage (1792-1871).
Although Babbage spent most of his working
life and fortune building his "analytical engine", its mechanical
design and the wooden technology of the day could not provide the
required precision.
Needless to say, the analytical engine did not have an operating
system.
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
CITS2002 Systems Programming, Lecture 3, p7, 29th July 2024.
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