History of Computer Hardware

In the last 17 minutes of this video from 2019 you can hear Ken Thompson talk about chess computers and this incident in particular.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4443753

In the past 10 years or so, tech specialists have repeatedly voiced concerns that the progress of computing power will soon hit the wall. Miniaturisation has physical limits, and then what? Have we reached these limits? Is Moore’s law dead? That’s what we’ll talk about today.

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:53 Moore’s Law And Its Demise
• 06:23 Current Strategies
• 13:14 New Materials
• 15:50 New Hardware
• 18:58 Summary

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTnpy7sw2g
• https://piped.video/watch?v=gWTnpy7sw2g

Soyuz "Globus" Mechanical Navigation Computer Part 2: Powering Up

Soyuz "Globus" Mechanical Navigation Computer Part 3: Landing Function

• https://system6.app/
• https://system7.app/
• https://kanjitalk7.app/
• https://macos8.app/
• https://macos9.app/

besides the above five domains, https://infinitemac.org/ has multiple point releases of every major release of the Mac System Software from 1.0 onwards.

source code is here: https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac

@mihaip@hachyderm.io - in case you see this - thank you so much for building this!

I do not need to mention the impact it had on the PC as well as on consoles.

With 3.1 the beginning of computer sales as we know it basically started. In that time IBM had basically full market control.

Original Logo.