Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The Computer Chronicles - Operating Systems (1984)" video.

  1. 2:35 Tog! Long-time UI guy. Ran the “Ask Tog” column in one of Apple’s developer publications, and I have the book of his compiled columns.
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  2. 17:13 Unless the process initiates asynchronous I/O ...
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  3. 6:46 No mention of process management and interprocess communication? Memory management? I can understand leaving out networking, as it was still early days for that.
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  4. 16:36 OK, process management comes in here, but still no IPC.
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  5. Minicomputer systems like Unix and VMS most certainly had a range of IPC mechanisms by that point.
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  6. Any OS textbook from the era would have discussed it.
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