[ih] Early use of the "Internet" term (1977)

[John Day]

I have always contended that timesharing was just the interim step until hardware size and prices came down. We treated timesharing like that and complained when it wasn’t. ;-)  We were hard to satisfy. True. But then the OS was our responsibility, so it was our fault at least partially.

What I never understood was why the early PC developers thought ’single-user’ meant single process at a time!?  The first Macs couldn’t even edit and print at the same time.  We had been building multi-tasking OSs on hardware that small for nearly a decade at that point. It wasn’t hardware limitations.

John


> On Jun 14, 2019, at 12:49, Larry Press <lpress at csudh.edu> wrote:
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> John Day wrote:
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>> I am sure there are other early examples of “PC-like” things. 
> 
> The LINC and LGP-30 were "PC-like" -- personal, but not desktop.
> 
> When I was a student, you could reserve 15-minute "happy time" shots on Sundays when you operated a 7090 yourself. I guess it was PC-like for those 15 minutes :-).
> 
> The first time I touched a timesharing system (QUICKTRAN) felt totally personal.
> 
> My first desktop PC was an S-100 CP/M computer with 8" floppies -- you could own your own tools.
> 
> Larry