Comments by "" (@ronjon7942) on "The Evolution of the Operating System" video.

  1. You should consider writing a book. There are so many out there about the broad strokes of the PC history, I’d think there’d be a enthusiastic interest in one ff stories like yours, told from the perspective of someone who lived it.
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  2. Laf, I can relate to a lot of this. One of my goals for going into electronics tech was to take the PC quarter so that I could understand wtf the ads were saying when describing the specs for ‘new’ pcs back in the mid 90s.
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  3. Same goes with hypervisors, switching between all those OS instances, which even after so many years, still blows me away. I still recall when a customer showed me their ‘new’ VMWare install, and transitioned a running OS from one server to another - I just stared thinking of the ramifications of what I had just watched. Geez, this was 15-20 years ago.
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  4. I think he was blissfully aware that people could fill in the blanks with comments, if we desired. There’s only so much room in 30min.
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  5. 4:15 Is that Ronald Reagan? This was phenomenal, Jon (did I spell your name correctly?), and how managed to cram so much in just 30min is astounding. I’m sorry so many criticized you for leaving anything out - how they expect EVERYTHING OS-related to fit in 30min is curious - but hopefully most will simply add value to your episode by adding the ‘holes’ in the comments.
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  6. OS virtualization came before memory. Virtualization of memory was a big deal, and until then, each running guest OS had its own section of server memory carved out only for it.
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  7. Uhhh, what?
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  8. Gassssp!
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  9. A hospital I worked at ran a patient reg/billing app called Affinity on VMS, but I seem to recall it went from a beige VMS box to a big blue server from DEC; shoot, or maybe it was Tru64…I’m not sure now. I never administered it, I hired on as an AIX admin and we moved the Affinity app over to AIX. Anyway, that thing was NEVER bounced.
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  10. You think Jon’s going to write a 30min episode on operating systems, and waste time on a Blackberry anything?
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  11. Didn’t the IBMers leave then? And go see Gates?
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  12. Jon wasn’t equivocating an OS with a LLM. He was comparing their relative importance in each of their respective compute paradigms. Operating systems helped provide a common interface to application developers (ie, Unix on disparate hardware), which allowed app development to explode. LLMs provide a way to teach a piece of software running on thousands of nodes how to rapidly and artificially gain ‘experience’ to make intelligent decisions. His point is both were revolutionary.
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  13. Ok. Well, good thing you commented then.
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  14. I could have written this comment! :)
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