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Happy 70th Birthday to Director, the world's FIRST operating system! 🥳 Developed for MIT's Whirlwind I, Director automated tasks & paved the way for modern OS like Windows & Linux. A pivotal moment in computer science history! 🚀💻 #OperatingSystem #TechHistory #Innovation #newz

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TechRadar pro · Happy birthday, Director! The first operating system in the world turns 70 todayBy Efosa Udinmwen

Before user-friendly distros like Ubuntu, installing Linux was brutal. In the early 90s, if you wanted Linux, you had to download it in pieces over slow connections, write it to floppy disks, and manually configure everything—including your own X server settings just to get a GUI. There were no package managers, and if you compiled the kernel wrong? You bricked your system and started over. Those who survived earned serious bragging rights.

42 years ago, IBM released the successor to its very successful IBM PC. Dubbed the PC/XT, it added a hard drive and more expansion slots while still running at the same speed. And at a pretty steep price. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #1980stech #techhistory dfarq.homeip.net/ibm-pc-xt-mod

The Silicon Underground · IBM PC/XT Model 5160It was standard office equipment in the 80s but not until the price came down

33 years ago, people were afraid to turn on their computer. A nasty virus was going around and John McAfee predicted 5 million PCs would be affected. But I wasn't scared and in this blog post I tell you why. #retrocomputing #virusthreats #digitalfear #techhistory dfarq.homeip.net/remembering-m

The Silicon Underground · Remembering the Michelangelo virusPeople were afraid to turn on their computers March 6, 1992. But I did.

Before Linux had polished distributions, early adopters had to build everything from scratch. That changed in 1992 with two of the first Linux distributions:

Boot/Root (January 1992) – H J Lu released a minimal diskset, giving users a way to boot Linux and install a basic system without compiling everything themselves.

MCC Interim Linux (April 1992) – Developed at Manchester Computing Centre, this was the first Linux distro designed for easier installation and distribution, laying the groundwork for what would follow.

These projects helped transform Linux from source code into a functional OS that could be installed and used more easily. Without them, modern Linux distros might have taken much longer to evolve.

„Personal Computers (PCs) finden immer größere Verbreitung. Im industriellen Bereich werden vor allem IBM-PCs und Kompatible verwendet, um das große Softwareangebot nutzen zu können. Im technisch-wissenschaftlichen Bereich werden wegen der besseren Möglichkeiten bei günstigerem Preis-Leistungsverhältnis gerne Ataris und Amigas verwendet.“

Quelle: GUUG Nachrichten Nr. 10, Juni 1987
#vintagecomputing #techhistory #technikgeschichte