Open Source Computing

Intro

Introduce yourself! Go to the Discussions section of our Sakai site, and give some sort of answer to the following:

• What sort of project might you be interested in? Game, application, hobby, utility, system, tool
• What languages do you know or are willing to learn? Python, Java, C, etc

Overview

Wednesday: Start with RMS

AT&T 3BNET for 3B computers: Allows double the Ethernet packet size! 3 KB instead of 1500 bytes! Twice the, um, well, not really throughput, but twice as many bytes in any one packet!

Why AT&T really did this: to lock users into their hardware, and also their system.

That's why so many commercial users are so invested in Open Source: it's to avoid vendor lock-in.

1990's-era Unix implementations: Solaris (Sun), HP-UX (HP), AIX (IBM), Silicon Graphics, ...

But not RMS!