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Disk cloning – Operating environment

A disk cloning program needs to be able to read even protected operating system files on the source disk, and must guarantee that the system is in a consistent state at the time of reading. It must also overwrite any operating system already present on the destination disk. To simplify these tasks, most disk cloning [...]

ENQUIRE – Technical

The application ran on terminal with plaintext 24×80. The first version was able to hyperlinking between files. ENQUIRE was written in the Pascal programming language and implemented on a Norsk Data NORD-10 under SINTRAN III and version 2 was later ported to MS-DOS and to VAX/VMS. ==Further Reading * Adapted from the Wikipedia article ENQUIRE, [...]

History of the graphical user interface – The 80s: Early commercial developments

Apple Lisa and Macintosh (and later, the Apple IIgs) Beginning in 1979, started by Steve Jobs and led by Jef Raskin, the Lisa and Macintosh teams at Apple Computer (which included former members of the Xerox PARC group) continued to develop such ideas. The Macintosh, released in 1984, was the first commercially successful product to [...]

The Software Link – Products

* PC-MOS: an MS-DOS-like multiuser operating system with support for multi-tasking on serial terminals. * PC-MOS/386: a later version of PC-MOS using features not present on processors prior to the 80386. * LANLINK: a NetBIOS-ready local area network that leverages serial and parallel port connected platforms * MultiLink: a multitasking environment for DOS PC/MOS figured [...]

Windows Preinstallation Environment – Introduction

Windows Preinstallation Environment (aka Windows PE, WinPE) is a lightweight version of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2 that is used for the deployment of workstations and servers. It is intended as a 32-bit or 64-bit replacement for MS-DOS during the installation phase of Windows, and can [...]

Moria (video game) – History

The original version was written at the University of Oklahoma by Robert Alan Koeneke and Jimmey Wayne Todd, after they became hooked on ”Rogue” but could not run it on the VAX-11/780 minicomputer to which they had access. Version 1.0 was written in VMS Pascal and completed in the summer of 1983. From around 1985 [...]

Pipeline (Unix) – History

The pipeline concept and the vertical-bar notation was invented by Douglas McIlroy, one of the authors of the early command shells, after he noticed that much of the time they were processing the output of one program as the input to another. His ideas were implemented in 1973 when Ken Thompson added pipes to the [...]

Windows NT – Introduction

Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was originally designed to be a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement consumer versions of Windows that were based on MS-DOS. NT [...]

Digital Research – Introduction

Digital Research, Inc. (aka DR or DRI; originally Intergalactic Digital Research) was the company created by Dr. Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/M operating system and related products. It was the first large software company in the microcomputer world. Digital Research should not be confused with Digital Equipment Corporation; the two were not [...]

E/OS – History

The project was started in 1995 with the goal of a free DOS. Until 1998 it was based exclusively on FreeDOS, and since then has been based on SEAL GUI. In 2000 the E/OS project switched to a larger focus, to create a system capable of running programs written for multiple platforms, including BeOS, Microsoft [...]

Macintosh – Introduction

Macintosh ( ), or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command-line interface. The company continued [...]

Banyan VINES – VINES client software

VINES client-software ran on most PC-based operating systems, including MS-DOS and earlier versions of Microsoft Windows. It was fairly light-weight on the client, and hence remained in use during the later half of the 1990s, when many machines not up to the task of running other networking stacks then in widespread use. This occurred on [...]

COM file – Introduction

COM file is a type of executable file; the name is derived from the file name extension ”.COM”. Originally, the term stood for “Command file”, a text file containing commands to be issued to the operating system (similar to a DOS batch file), on many of the Digital Equipment Corporation mini and mainframe operating systems [...]

History of the floppy disk – The 5¼-inch minifloppy

In 1976 at a meeting An Wang of Wang Laboratories informed Shugart Associates’s, Jim Adkisson and Don Massaro, that the 8-inch format was simply too large for the desktop word processing machines he was developing at the time. Adkinson and Massaro proposed a 5¼-inches wide format which Wang accepted. Shugart Associates then developed a new [...]









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