Category Archives: computer history

A filesystem for tape? Why?

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Michael Richmond

Tape has been around forever[1. At least since 1951 starting with the UNIVAC 1. Certainly longer than silicon transistors and modern digital computers.]. Generally, there has been no change in the way that people and applications work with tape since … Continue reading →

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Rhapsody DR2

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Michael Richmond

Apple acquired Next Software in 1997 bringing OpenStep into the Apple fold. OpenStep (and NeXTstep before it) was based on BSD Unix running on top of a heavily modified version of the Mach micro-kernel. OpenStep was used as the foundation … Continue reading →

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