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1991 – Sir Tim Berners-Lee showed everyone the first web browser and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor. The Browsers’ name was called “WorldWideWeb”, but was later changed to “Nexus”. Berners-Lee ran it on the NeXTSTEP platform and worked with not only the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), but the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Nexus is not in production anymore.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• 3Com announces they will acquire US Robotics
• Intel introduces the Pentium III
• Yahoo launches Buzz

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• Borland unveils the Delphi Development Tool
• EA acquires Dreamworks

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1999 – AMD releases the AMD K6-III Processor in speeds of 400 and 450 MHz. It would feature a 64KB Level 1 cache and a 256KB Level 2 cache. The 3DNow! graphics instructions would be supported, along with Direct X 6.0. There were 21.3 million transistors on the 0.25 micron process wafer.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Palm introduces the Palm IIIc and Palm IIIxe
• Popcorn is introduced to the Pilgrims by Quadequina
• Gawker puts Defamer up for sale

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Happy Presidents Day!

2005 – YouTube, the popular video sharing website, is established by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Google bought out YouTube on October 9, 2006 for $1.65 Billion. The official launch didn’t happen until November of 2005. With an upload every 20 minutes and over 1 Billion views a day, YouTube has definitely grown to a video powerhouse.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Intel demonstrates the Willamette processor
• Kevin Mitnik is arrested by the FBI
• The Pirate Bay trial begins in Sweeden

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2001- Jan de Wit – a.k.a. “OnTheFly” sends out an email stating that it is a picture of the famous tennis player. Of course it turned out to be a a Worm that takes down tens of thousands of computers. Most companies will shut off their email to the world just to prevent from getting it. De Wit would then be arrested two days later and sentenced to 150 hours community service.

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• Packard Bell employee opens fire
• Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 source code is leaked

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1992 – Comp.os.minix was the location for famous thread “Linux is Dead”. 73 Posts went back and forthe before Bill Mitchell closes it.  Andy Tanenbaum (MINIX) started the thread and Linus Torvolds shot back. This is how the thread started out:

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I was in the U.S. for a couple of weeks, so I haven’t commented much on LINUX (not that I would have said much had I been around), but for what it is worth, I have a couple of comments now.

As most of you know, for me MINIX is a hobby, something that I do in the evening when I get bored writing books and there are no major wars, revolutions, or senate hearings being televised live on CNN. My real job is a professor and researcher in the area of operating systems.

As a result of my occupation, I think I know a bit about where operating are going in the next decade or so. Two aspects stand out:

1. MICROKERNEL VS MONOLITHIC SYSTEM
Most older operating systems are monolithic, that is, the whole operating system is a single a.out file that runs in ‘kernel mode.’ This binary contains the process management, memory management, file system and the rest. Examples of such systems are UNIX, MS-DOS, VMS, MVS, OS/360, MULTICS, and many more.

The alternative is a microkernel-based system, in which most of the OS runs as separate processes, mostly outside the kernel. They communicate by message passing. The kernel’s job is to handle the message passing, interrupt handling, low-level process management, and possibly the I/O. Examples of this design are the RC4000, Amoeba, Chorus, Mach, and the not-yet-released Windows/NT.

While I could go into a long story here about the relative merits of the two designs, suffice it to say that among the people who actually design operating systems, the debate is essentially over. Microkernels have won. The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems (e.g., Rick Rashid has published papers comparing
Mach 3.0 to monolithic systems) that it is now all over but the shoutin`.

MINIX is a microkernel-based system. The file system and memory management are separate processes, running outside the kernel. The I/O drivers are also separate processes (in the kernel, but only because the brain-dead nature of the Intel CPUs makes that difficult to do otherwise). LINUX is a monolithic style system. This is a giant step back into the 1970s. That is like taking an existing, working C program and rewriting it in BASIC. To me, writing a monolithic system in 1991 is a truly poor idea.

2. PORTABILITY
Once upon a time there was the 4004 CPU. When it grew up it became an 8008. Then it underwent plastic surgery and became the 8080. It begat the 8086, which begat the 8088, which begat the 80286, which begat the 80386, which begat the 80486, and so on unto the N-th generation. In the meantime, RISC chips happened, and some of them are running at over 100 MIPS. Speeds of 200 MIPS and more are likely in the coming years. These things are not going to suddenly vanish. What is going to happen is that they will gradually take over from the 80×86 line. They will run old MS-DOS programs by interpreting the 80386 in software. (I even
wrote my own IBM PC simulator in C, which you can get by FTP from ftp.cs.vu.nl = 192.31.231.42 in dir minix/simulator.) I think it is a gross error to design an OS for any specific architecture, since that is not going to be around all that long.

MINIX was designed to be reasonably portable, and has been ported from the Intel line to the 680×0 (Atari, Amiga, Macintosh), SPARC, and NS32016. LINUX is tied fairly closely to the 80×86. Not the way to go.

Don`t get me wrong, I am not unhappy with LINUX. It will get all the people who want to turn MINIX in BSD UNIX off my back. But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a **MODERN** “free” OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe GNU or something like that.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

P.S. Just as a random aside, Amoeba has a UNIX emulator (running in user space), but it is far from complete. If there are any people who would like to work on that, please let me know. To run Amoeba you need a few 386s, one of which needs 16M, and all of which need the WD Ethernet card.

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1999 – Victoria Secret holds their annual fashion show after dealing with the networks for the last 10 years. The event attracts attention – 1.5 million visitors to be exact. The company uses the same idea the next year to rousing success. This was considered the first Major Successful webcast.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Namco acquires controlling interest in Atari
• AOL blackout
• Gibert Amelio becomes Chairman of Apple

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1981 – Before Michael Scott was the head of Dunder Mifflin in the Office, he was the Apple Computer President. In his tenure, Mike sends an internal memo talking about how Apple needs to become a Typewriter-less company. The memo outlines their process for doing so and how it’s a campaign for all offices to ditch the Typewriter and get an Apple II. The memo was attached with a note with specific instructions for Ken to get rid of his DEC word processor ASAP.

**Note – Mike Scott of “The Office” (NBC) and Mike Scott of Apple are of no relation. Purely coincidental.

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• Texas Instruments Patents the integrated circuit
• Patrick Naughton, Mike Sheridan and James Gosling begin devolpment of Java
• Microsoft offers a Bid to buy Yahoo for 44.6 Billion

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This week’s show, we take a quick look back to 2009, but we look in a different way. We explore 5 ideas that Technology has propelled in 2009. Some of it has been around a lot longer than last year, while others have created a household name for themselves.

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The 5 things we look at

• Droid
• Farmville
• Augmented Reality
• Tablets
• Twitter Trends

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I thought it would be a cool idea to do the 5 Tech things outside. After all, there was 17 inches of snow and 5 degrees – not to mention the studio is being re-done. Unfortunately, the mic battery was going and all I g– wa- stat-c for 15 minutes. Therefore, I pulled what I can and filled in the rest.

Next week, there will be a new battery in the mic.

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• Facebook Privacy changes
• AT&T Data Crackdown
• Apple La La
• New Google items
• Google scammers

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I – S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
Mac Chrome
Google Open DNS
Google Goggles
Realtime Google
Dragon on iPhone
Dell Makes $6.5 M on Twitter
PS3 Updates
Seagate Pulsar
Star Wars Ballcap
Zero Day IE Hole Fixed
Samsung Bada
Paper Batteries
Air Security Posted
Blogger gets Sitcom
200 more bands at SWSX
Print Toast

II
Yahoo Selling HotJobs
Print Going in the Right direction? E-Reader coming
JooJoo
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QOTW – Will you buy a Joo Joo
Onionized – New Device Desired
MST3K on HULU

III
Boxee and D-Link
1,000 Apps are Gone
Lifesize Dalek

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