Chapter 8 Augmenting Human Intellect 1975-1985
DEC – Digital Equipment Corporation VAX – Virtual Address eXtension: “extension” of PDP-11, October 1977 (244) During 1974-1977, DEC missed an opportunity to join in on the profit reaped by those who jumped into the business of personal computers (245) C. Gordon Bell (246) Bill Strecker (246) UNIX
IBM/Microsoft Systems Network Architecture - 1974 U.S. vs IBM lawsuit 1981 – PC MS-DOS/PC-DOS Interface Manager/Windows
Viatron and Wang Viatron - AESOP Wang – Calculators Word Processing
Xerox PARC ARPA The Mouse Ethernet Alto (1973) WYSIWYG
Personal Computers and Apple Radio Shack – TRS-80 (1977) Commodore – PET Apple II VisiCalc (1979) Lisa (1983) to Macintosh (1984) GUI AppleTalk PC Clones
DEC’s PC Challenge - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKbnbvF_2Ew Macintosh 1984 Ad – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhsWzJo2sN4 Futurama Macintosh Parody - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHMA5lwqt2s