By way of comparison, check out this article from there four years ago, in September of 2018:
Updated visual summary of the Mac boot process
This is not easy stuff for most people, and if you ever had to support PC's or Windows in the past, it got that complicated over 40 years ago due to the limitations imposed by the hardware in personal computers of the time. Back when all the major companies thought the hardware would rule the tech landscape, not the software running on it. Both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had other ideas though...
Many of the quotes by both Jobs and Gates are legendary now about all that now, but here are two of my favorites:
Steve Jobs: (from an interview after Microsoft and Bill Gates had kicked his butt into his NeXT big thing, and later to "Infinity and Beyond" with Windows by commoditizing computer hardware –– before his return to Apple to save it from itself, again): "Good artists copy, but great artists steal..." (Jobs did say Picasso said it originally, and he could be a real prick too as I understand it, but please excuse my French. So Jobs stole the quote from Picasso as well, Bahahahaha!). We all know what Jobs meant though, right? It's about creativity.
Bill Gates: " Uh... *adjusts glasses*... 640K ought to be enough for anybody." (he was referring to the RAM limitations of IBM PC hardware of the time, and how hard it was to squeeze DOS into such a limited amount of it, not to mention all the efficient programming and time needed to do it. He was not wrong about that!)
Since both Steve Jobs (and later Bill Gates, from Jobs) basically stole from Xerox's PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and their GUI (Graphic User Interface) research after Jobs got a tour of the place and saw the work they were doing... well, the rest is history now for anyone who wants to read about it or look all that up. |
