16 Oct
2025
16 Oct
'25
6:52 a.m.
Ummh... The 1970s were dominated by mainframes and minicomputers. The
1980s by mainframes, minicomputers and workstations. Pretty much all
modern operating systems (especially macOS, android and of course
linux) are based on UNIX that originated in the minicomputer
world.
Oh, and ARM originally stood for "Acorn RISC Machine", and was
developed by Acorn Computers for their Acorn Archimedes, running
RISC OS.
Julf
On 15/10/2025 23:48, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
Hi everyone,
According to historians, and I consider myself one, let us consider what
classic/vintage computers were: The 1970s saw the three amigos: Apple II,
TRS-80 and Commodore PET and the OS was DOS and its ilk + CP/M. The 1980’s
saw the Dells, HPs and many others with MS-DOS & IBM PC-DOS from QDOS. We
saw this and behold ’bring on the clones’(I just had to say this!) The era
of old computers saw one generation building on the shoulders of giants who
designed these wayback computers(with apologies to Wayback Machine).
Today’s PCs and ARM machines are just the latest iteration of this
theory(by the way not mine).
Happy computing
Murray 🙂