From punch cards and blinking lights to Unix, C, and the portable, modular OSes that power today’s machines, this episode traces the arc of operating systems. We’ll explore mainframes (OS/360, MCP, SCOPE, MACE), early multitasking via job queues, virtual memory, the birth of Unix and its philosophy, and the microcomputer revolution that brought OSes to homes and small businesses.

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