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The courts ruled that due to the exact language of the license between apple and microsoft, windows was covered under that initial license. Microsoft turned around and used that patent agreement to write Microsoft Windows.ДЄpple sued microsoft. So microsoft asked for and got a license to use apple's patents to develop programs for Macintosh OS. there's a chance if, say, microsoft wrote a program for LisaOS, there's a chance microsoft could then be sued for violating XEROX/Apple's patents. The MacOS and, by extension, LisaOS used licensed patents of XEROX PARC's, the ALTO, famous for the 'mother of all demos', which paved the way for the modern GUI. Linux was released in 1991, it probably eventually was given a gpl copyright, then that changed to gplv2 Apple would release macintosh OS in 1984, and throughout most of it's life it would be technically superior to microsoft's offerings. Significantly, apple would develop the LisaOS, a sophisticated GUI in 1982 that offered protected memory, a feature windows wouldn't offer until windows 3.0 in 1990. Most of them mimicked CP/M and provided simple tools like BASIC interpreters and such. The elders tell us that although many people who didn't use computers before hard disks, disk operating systems were developed for computers that had floppy disks, but no hard disks. Quick and Dirty DOS was bought by microsoft and renamed Microsoft Dirty operating system, Apple had their own operating system. CP/M became displaced by many flavors of DOS. The elders tell us that in the age of darkness, CP/M was the popular home operating system. It was a commercially copyrighted operating system.Д«SD was released in 1977 with a bsd license, in many ways it's similar to unix but with a different license. With unix, many standard forms of abstractions were created, device files, command line scripting/interpreting, and many of the common utilities we know today. Multicis had many drawbacks and probably wasn't supported by many platforms. It's been a long time, at a glance it seems like time sharing is a term used for a very basic form of un protected multi tasking multi processing that allowed a primitive form of multi-user computing. This was an early, popular time-sharing operating system. With multi tasking, operating systems were able to swap between processes.ДЄs the elders tell us, before unix, was multicis. With multi processing, operating systems were able to hold more than one process in their memory. The first operating system may have been developed in 1951 or earlier. Here we're seeing the beginnings of programmable operating systems.

Batch processing is mostly running one process to completion. Let's skip batch processing on punch cards and say we've moved to solid state memory. In the beginning, you'd have a wall of dials, you'd dial in your program, flip the on switch, then a few hours later you'd get a few digits, say, six or 8 digits.Дifferent things were probably tried, but then we developed punch cards, other than that little changed. This sounds a little like a homework question. A list of book recommendations from our community for various topics can be found here. If you are new to Computer Science please read our FAQ before posting.

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