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Computer science evolved during the time when most people did not have a computer. The concepts of compilers, operating systems, databases, file systems, compu
by z3phyr 2y ago
Computer science evolved during the time when most people did not have a computer.
The concepts of compilers, operating systems, databases, file systems, computer graphics all evolved from the 60s to the early 90s.
After that, it was mostly scaling.
- int_19h 2y agoIt is still true that people freely shared and copied sources for useful software in those days. It wasn't even called "open source" or any other kind of fancy term because it was the norm.
- pjmlp 2y agoIt was called Demos, Public Domain, Shareware, Beerware, Postalware,.... And the open core licenses of nowadays are nothing more than a rebranding of those kind of license models.
- int_19h 2y agoI'm talking about the early UNIX time period, when it wasn't really called anything. Shareware etc is the minicomputer era.