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Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design
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Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design

by Jean Bacon, Tim Harris
March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
27h 17m
English
Pearson Business
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A.1. Evolution and exploitation of technology

1801

A linked sequence of punched cards controls the weaving of patterns in Jacquard's loom.

1822–49

Charles Babbage works on his Difference Engine and Analytical Engine.

1844

Samuel Morse demonstrates the Morse code.

1854

George Boole develops Boolean algebra.

1858

First Atlantic telegraph cable.

1876

Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.

1882

William S. Burroughs embarks on inventing an adding machine.

1889

Herman Hollerith's Electronic Tabulating System is selected for use in the 1890 census. He establishes a company in 1896.

1895

Guglielmo Marconi transmits a radio signal.

1901

The keypunch appears.

1924

T. J. Watson renames the former CTR (originating from Hollerith) IBM.

1927

Television ...

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