This is fascinating not just for what is covers, but where it stops: At the time this aired, Steve Jobs was having difficulty selling the technically impressive but hugely expensive NeXT Computer/NeXTcube and NeXTstation workstation range; Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy under Gil Amelio; and Microsoft bestrode the computing world like a colossus. However, in 1996 the Linux kernel hit a major milestone at version 2.0 and within a couple of years Steve Jobs had returned to Apple as interim and then permanent (i)CEO, and introduced the iMac, changing the consumer face of computing forever. Today Linux is the OS deployed on over 85% of the world’s fastest 500 supercomputers – as well as on just about everything else down to cheap consumer netbooks and mobile phones; Apple’s sales continue to be strong in the face of recession; and Microsoft is seeing its market-share contracting on almost all fronts.
Sticking with the theme of how things change over time, here’s the feature-length “Deathbed Vigil” video by Dave Haynie, Commodore’s Head Engineer, chronicling the last days of Commodore and the Amiga dream. Although this is from way back in 1994, the situation seems to bear many parallels to the situations people are finding themselves in today…
May 7 2009
Interesting & geeky stuff on YouTube
Cool videos from times past after the break…
Bob X. Cringley‘s seminal and hugely entertaining Triumph of the Nerds is serialised here.
This is fascinating not just for what is covers, but where it stops: At the time this aired, Steve Jobs was having difficulty selling the technically impressive but hugely expensive NeXT Computer/NeXTcube and NeXTstation workstation range; Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy under Gil Amelio; and Microsoft bestrode the computing world like a colossus. However, in 1996 the Linux kernel hit a major milestone at version 2.0 and within a couple of years Steve Jobs had returned to Apple as interim and then permanent (i)CEO, and introduced the iMac, changing the consumer face of computing forever. Today Linux is the OS deployed on over 85% of the world’s fastest 500 supercomputers – as well as on just about everything else down to cheap consumer netbooks and mobile phones; Apple’s sales continue to be strong in the face of recession; and Microsoft is seeing its market-share contracting on almost all fronts.
Sticking with the theme of how things change over time, here’s the feature-length “Deathbed Vigil” video by Dave Haynie, Commodore’s Head Engineer, chronicling the last days of Commodore and the Amiga dream. Although this is from way back in 1994, the situation seems to bear many parallels to the situations people are finding themselves in today…
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