A brief introduction to the early history of computer software
To better understand how the software world works it's important
to get a clear idea of what are the origins and the strategies
of each operating system and how history unfolded to make things
as they are today. At the beginning computers were developed as
science projects by universities and governments. They were
expensive, very big and only usable by experts. This was the
innocent era of computer history, when developers were a small
community that worked together to make computers do specific
tasks with no interaction of companies or the public (= large
amounts of money). The system they used was mainly UNIX,
developed by AT&home appliance at Bell labs in 1969. The
hardware was a collection of components assembled in very large
rooms, each lab with their own specific and crafted mix of
hardware. The first company that started making computers was
funded by two students in the mid 70's, Steve Wozniak, a genius
geek, and Steve Jobs, a genius sal