Νομπελ Τεχνολογιας στον δημιουργο του linux

O Linus Torvalds, δημιουργός του Linux, είναι ο ένας από τους δύο νικητές του φετινού Τεχνολογικού Βραβείου της Χιλιετίας (Millenium Technology Prize) στην ετήσια τελετή της Ακαδημίας Τεχνολογίας της Φιλανδίας που πραγματοποιήθηκε χθες το βράδυ στο Ελσίνκι. Το εν λόγω βραβείο θεωρείται από πολλούς ως το αντίστοιχο Νόμπελ της τεχνολογίας

MS-DOS - 30 years Anniversary

MS-DOS is 30 years old today. Well, kind of. On 27 July 1981, Microsoft gave the name MS-DOS to the disk operating system it acquired on that day from Seattle Computer Products (SCP), a hardware company owned and run by a fellow called Rod Brock.

SCP developed what it at various times called QDOS and 86-DOS to run on a CPU card it had built based on Intel's 8086 processor.

The company had planned to use Digital Research's CP/M-86 operating system, then still in development. But, having released the card in November 1979 - it shipped with an 8086-compatible version Microsoft's Basic language interpreter-cum-operating system - and reached April 1980 without CP/M-86 becoming available to bundle, SCP decided it had to create its own OS for the card.