History Tools
19. Dezember 2023 / 19. Dezember 2023 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
FreeDOS (10.12.2023) So I also teach this university course about the history of technology, where students also learn how to use spreadsheets. This semester, some of my students were surprised to learn that (a) spreadsheets existed before Windows, and (b) even a DOS spreadsheet could do everything we learned on the modern spreadsheets, just differently […]
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Fortran History Programmierung
8. November 2023 / 9. Juni 2024 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
FreeDOS (23.06.2023) In a conversation for a podcast, not long ago, we talked about how some computer science grads can find themselves working in organizations that have old tech. The conversation we had was about programming languages. Like, computer science grads will find they have to work with COBOL or FORTRAN, and they don’t know […]
History Unix/Linux
8. November 2023 / 8. November 2023 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
FreeDOS (11.07.2023) We don’t give much thought these days to what “Unix” means. In 2023, most Unix systems are actually running some version of Linux, which includes modern tools and commands that were unthinkable when Unix hit the scene in the early 1970s. But some 50 years later, “Unix” still lives on. I wanted to […]
History
5. November 2023 / 5. November 2023 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
FreeDOS (28.06.2020) If you know me, you know I love a good DOS spreadsheet. And Quattro Pro was really the last bastion of DOS spreadsheets before Windows dominated the workplace. In the video, I mention the lawsuit between Lotus (1-2-3) and Borland (Quattro Pro) about the menus. You can read a quick summary on Wikipedia: […]
History OS
11. März 2023 / 5. November 2023 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
FreeDOS (21.09.2020) Where did DOS come from? Why does DOS look they way it does? And why do we still use DOS in 2020? I just gave this talk at the Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage conference, and I wanted to share a version of it here. Visit our website https://www.freedos.org/
