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Home » Current Shows » Spoken Word Shows » EPIC! » (Epic) Episode 46: Operating Systems

(Epic) Episode 46: Operating Systems

Posted on 2014-01-04 by Marc Cabot Posted in EPIC! 1 Comment

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The Epic crew talk about their favourite and not so favourite operating systems new and old.

Hosts

  • Marc Cabot (@MarcCabot)
  • Richard Gray(@EpicRich1)
  • Andy McMullen (@AndyLastName)
  • Mark, the Encaffeinated One (@encaf1)
  • Nuchtchas (@Nuchtchas, nimlas.org)
  • The Clockwork Doctor (@The_Clock_Doc)

Show Notes

  • Windows 95
    www.microsoft.com
  • Windows Millenium
    www.microsoft.com
  • The Apple TV
    http://store.apple.com/ca/ipod/ipod-accessories/apple-tv
  • OSX – Mountain Lion
    http://www.apple.com/ca/osx/
  • Open ELEC box (xbmc media center)
    http://openelec.tv/
  • Windows XP
    www.microsoft.com
  • Linux/BSD
    http://www.linux.com/
    http://www.freebsd.org/
  • The history of GNU
    http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.html
  • The history of windows
    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows/history#T1=era0
  • The Commodore Computers
    http://www.commodore.ca/history/company/chronology_portcommodore.htm
  • GeOS on Commodore computers
    http://commodore.ca/history/company/turks_geos.htm
  • Future Crew and the demo scene
    http://future-crew.net/
  • SteamOS
    http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/
  • Quantum Link
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjgH27p-FAM
  • ChromeOS
    http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os
  • The Next machines and true tones
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT
  • Microsoft Bob
    Time Magazine: 50 Worst Inventions (http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1991915_1991909_1991855,00.html)
    Bill Gates Interviews about MS Bob (http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1991915_1991909_1991855,00.html)
  • The Leap Pad
    http://www.leapfrog.com/en/index.html
  • The kaypro
    http://oldcomputers.net/kayproii.html
  • The SX64
    http://oldcomputers.net/sx64.html
  • Amstrad Portablel Machine
    http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=195
  • Classic Macs
    http://apple-history.com/classic
  • The Amiga video toaster
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1OVWfmynPw
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seznQmDp2pU

Epic Words

“It is the fate of the operating system to become free.”
– Neil Stevenson

WordPress Links

  • Linux Operating Systems That Rule
    http://pingnroute.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/linux-operating-systems-that-rule/
  • My Brief Experience with Windows 7
    http://nolongertheonlyone.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/my-brief-experience-with-windows-7/
  • My Second Experience with Windows 7
    http://nolongertheonlyone.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/my-second-experience-with-windows-7/
  • Death of an Operating System
    http://nolongertheonlyone.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/death-of-an-operating-system/

Corrections

  • Could not substantiate that the NeXT had true tone technology.
  • Could not substantiate that there is a code that causes the commodore PET to burn out.

If you noticed any issues with this episode and would like us to post a correction, email us here: epicchsr@gmail.com or tweet us at: @epicchsr

Credits

  • Recorded at CHSR 97.9 FM in Fredericton, New Brunswick
  • Post Editing: Marc Cabot
  • Hosts: Marc Cabot, Richard Gray, Andy McMullen, Nuchtchas, The Clockwork Doctor, Mark the Encaffeinated One
  • Opening Sketch by: Marc Cabot
  • Opening/Closing Music: ”Cheezee Lab” by Kevin MacLeod via Incompetech.com
  • Creative Commons License
    Epic by Geekloo.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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One thought on “(Epic) Episode 46: Operating Systems”

  1. Bob DeGrande says:
    2014-03-13 at 5:07 pm

    Great topic, it brought back lots of memories.

    Vista had real problems. Microsoft made them much worse by grossly understating how much hardware was needed to run it. I put it on four “Vista-capable” machines when it was released and had to revert to XP on two of them, the performance was so bad. There was actually a class action lawsuit about it. It also proved totally incapable of running on the netbooks that were popular at the time, even though Microsoft refused to allow XP on netbooks with more than 1GB of RAM.

    One of my favorite machines was the Atari ST. I did a lot of music, and it had built in MIDI, but I also liked the operating system a lot. It was similar to the Mac or the Amiga, but it was in ROM so it booted very quickly, and it could read DOS formatted floppies.

    My other favorite old computers, but not so much for OS reasons, were the Toshiba Libretto, a small computer running Windows 95 that my wife carried everywhere and played Civilization on, and a very small Sony UMPC that ran XP (but with some nifty stuff, built in cellular and a fingerprint scanner) and that I hacked to dual boot to OS X Tiger.

    Windows now has the same sort of issues that iTunes has for Apple. It started out doing a few simple things and has had every feature in the world grafted onto it. They need to blow it up and start over with a small, secure, fast core, as Apple did with OS X years ago. Windows 8 on a tablet gobbles up about half of a 64GB disk, which is too big to be useful.

    In general I prefer the modern OSs, though. I think that iOS being easy enough for a three year old or a technophobe grandparent to be comfortable with is really a major accomplishment.

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