1963 Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks

karypm88 Says:

Jan 9, 2010 - Nice history lesson... and "that guy" is Corbato, who is one of the founding fathers of time-sharing and, indirectly by way of Multics, Unix and Linuxs.

mrjohnson0asdf Says:

Jan 12, 2010 - Actually, it's kinda freaky how similar a modern computer still is.. How far we've yet to come.

17R3W Says:

Jan 12, 2010 - Around the 13 minute mark, where he's talking about doing things in burst, that's how computers worked up until just a few years ago. (in fact to a large extent even today). Until the advent of Hyper-threading and multi-core, a computer could not do two things at once. When things were "multi-tasked" they were actually processed in short bursts. This all happened so fast that you couldn't tell, but that's how it worked.

17R3W Says:

Jan 12, 2010 - The interesting thing, is this is still a problem when working with expansive computers. When working at a small TV station, I made a habit having making sure the computer was working while I'm on a break, or after I left work for the day. I always wanted to have a computer, rendering or compressing as many hours a day as possible.

hyretech Says:

Jan 13, 2010 - That Honeywell salesman was clueless. Honeywell purchased GE's computer business (and got Multics as a result). Granted, not MANY people used the 6180 for business.

dadeo1111 Says:

Jan 13, 2010 - Great prehistoric nerd festival! Worth watching for the nerd styles alone..gottal love the poindexter glasses all around..

NSResponder Says:

Jan 13, 2010 - Very large capacity. Nine megs. Wow. -jcr

qbslug Says:

Jan 14, 2010 - 600 dollars an hour!... in 1963!

zorinlynx Says:

Jan 14, 2010 - All I could think of when seeing timesharing explained is "The more things change, the more they stay the same." He basically described how multitasking works, and still works today. Memories are bigger, disks are bigger, CPUs are faster, and we have nicer terminals, but it's still basically the same. :)

GloriousOtaku Says:

Jan 15, 2010 - later 400,000.00 $ for 12 seconds

enantiomer2000 Says:

Jan 15, 2010 - so that was about 45 years ago. Just imagine what computers will look like in another 45 years...

Struwwel2 Says:

Jan 16, 2010 - Technology has advanced significantly in the intervening decades, but one thing hasn't changed: computer geeks today look the same as they did then. ; -)

sacreleases Says:

Jan 21, 2010 - Nice gem from history. It is hard to imagine for people today what the thought processes were in the past during the early computers. This stuff is what got us where we are today and now taken as a given.. what it was not.

vikramna2007 Says:

Jan 22, 2010 - he clearly mentions -Round Robin

Footbager Says:

Jan 25, 2010 - @Struwwel2 he is a scientist, not a 'geek'.

dadeo1111 Says:

Jan 25, 2010 - There's a difference? I know several scientists that call themselves nerds, geeks, labrats but have never heard them refer to themselves as scientists..not that they don't, I just haven't heard them.

Footbager Says:

Jan 25, 2010 - they are scientists, not 'nerds'.* yes, because the words are insulting.

dadeo1111 Says:

Jan 26, 2010 - No offense intended - I meant nerds in the kindest possible definition; a term of endearment for the theoretically proclivic, oft-bespectacled intelligentsia that makes this world, technically, what it is.

Haengma Says:

Feb 7, 2010 - Hehe, freight cars of paper.

skitch88 Says:

Apr 16, 2010 - i like the music at the end

c0deMunkey Says:

May 4, 2010 - These guys are proto geeks. We stand on the shoulders of thee giants.

CiphersSon Says:

Jun 3, 2010 - 9:25 wowi have a viewsonic 120Hz screen that has 3D vision hooked to a i7 with 2 GTX 260s in sli This is amazing how far computers have come in such a short time.

Scousar Says:

Jun 13, 2010 - This is superb. Corbatto is actually telling us about Multics a very advanced OS developed at MIT. It never enjoyed great commercial success but it was the first OS to be written in a high level languages (PL/1 also called PL/I). Unix and later Linux all owe a great deal to Multics, which was better enginered that Unix but was never as freely available, great video, thanks.

janporra Says:

Jul 29, 2010 - 19:23 Definitely NOT a COLEMAK keyboard!

keithnoguchi Says:

Jul 30, 2010 - Thank you so much for sharing the dawn of Multics and the modern computer history here on YouTube. It contains a lot of ideas and techniques, which inspires me a lot even after almost a half century.