Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The Computer Chronicles" channel.

  1. 7:27 Nine planets ... those were the days ...
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  2. We have a few new things, like command history and editing, and tab completion. Shells like bash have also acquired new language features, like arrays and job control. But yes, the basics remain largely unchanged from that time, and even before that time.
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  3. Apple did create a Web browser around a compound-document format later, with “CyberDog” that was built on top of OpenDoc. That didn’t last long.
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  4. Microsoft tried with Windows Home Server, but that got wiped out by cheap NAS boxes running Linux.
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  5. It was a 16-bit OS, in a world that was already embracing the 32-bit 386-based machines. In other words, it was too little, too late.
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  6. Hard to believe that “baseband versus broadband” was a real controversy. In the end, the sharing of the wire was achieved by making everything digital, so the multiplexing was done at the frame/packet level, within a common transport protocol. So baseband won.
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  7. 15:28 You’re not going to reach 3K with liquid N₂, matey.
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  8. 13:32 That would have been LucasArts. I don’t think their games were a big success, since the division is now gone.
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  9.  @tilsgee  Think of KDE as a later version of CDE.
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  10. 7:00 It did draw some foundation from the minicomputer industry, though, particularly DEC machines. Natural, since CP/M was originally cross-developed on DEC machines.
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  11. 10:50 Barings ... went bust in 1995 owing to the shenanigans of one Nick Leeson.
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