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== Reading Response Discussion ==
= Reading Response Discussion =
 
== Mother of All Demos: ==
 
Team: Jason, Kirill, Sravan, Agustin, Hassan Ambalica, Apoorv, Khaled
 
* 1968, Doug Inglebard
* One computer with multiple terminals controlling
* Video conferencing
* Computer mouse
* Word processing, rudimentary copy and paste
* Dynamic file linking
* Revision control/version control/source control
* Collaborative real-time editor
** User privilege control in that user can provide read-only access, read-write privilege to file
* Cord keyboard
** Marco keyboard that allows messages quickly, while using mouse at same time
* Not really a distributed operating system, but great start because multiple users at different terminals could share same resources
 
== Early Internet ==
 
== Alto ==
 
Team: Tory, Veena, Sameer, Mert, Deep, Nameet, Moe
 
* 1973
* High speed (3 Mbps @ 1km difference)
* Connects up to 256 machines
* Protocol similar to cross between UDP/TCP, before TCP invented
* Allowed sharing printers
* Also allowed for distributing files across computers (redundancy/reliability)
* Sort of early cloud
* Allowed for remote debugging, store error logs
* Allowed machines to use processing power of others
* much of the time it would be doing nothing

Revision as of 01:30, 13 January 2015

Reading Response Discussion

Mother of All Demos:

Team: Jason, Kirill, Sravan, Agustin, Hassan Ambalica, Apoorv, Khaled

  • 1968, Doug Inglebard
  • One computer with multiple terminals controlling
  • Video conferencing
  • Computer mouse
  • Word processing, rudimentary copy and paste
  • Dynamic file linking
  • Revision control/version control/source control
  • Collaborative real-time editor
    • User privilege control in that user can provide read-only access, read-write privilege to file
  • Cord keyboard
    • Marco keyboard that allows messages quickly, while using mouse at same time
  • Not really a distributed operating system, but great start because multiple users at different terminals could share same resources

Early Internet

Alto

Team: Tory, Veena, Sameer, Mert, Deep, Nameet, Moe

  • 1973
  • High speed (3 Mbps @ 1km difference)
  • Connects up to 256 machines
  • Protocol similar to cross between UDP/TCP, before TCP invented
  • Allowed sharing printers
  • Also allowed for distributing files across computers (redundancy/reliability)
  • Sort of early cloud
  • Allowed for remote debugging, store error logs
  • Allowed machines to use processing power of others
  • much of the time it would be doing nothing