Hybrid (or modular) kernels
Hybrid kernels are used in most commercial operating systems such as Microsoft Windows NT 3.1,
NT 3.5, NT 3.51, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.
Monolithic kernels
Monolithic kernels are part of Unix-like operating systems like Linux ,FreeBSD etc.
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Pirates of Silicon Valley was a movie about Bill Gates and how Microsoft got started and
also about Steve Jobs and how Apple got started. The movie is called Pirates of Silicon
Valley because it is about piracy in the computer world and Silicon Valley is a place in
California where computers are built. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs performed many
unethical actions during the beginnings of Microsoft and Apple.
Early in Steve Job's career he meets a man called Captain Crunch. Captain Crunch had
found a whistle in a Captain Crunch cereal box and realized that it makes the same
sound as the AT&T sounds. Steve Jobs and Captain Crunch then moved on the make a
device called a blue box using the whistle found in the Captain Crunch cereal box. The
blue box allowed them to make long distance phone calls without being charged.
Steve, Captain Crunch and Steve's partner, Steve W., sold the blue box to people. They
were almost caught one time by police who suspected that something was wrong. The
police however had no idea what a blue box was so Steve was off the hook. Inventing
and selling the blue box was unethical because it was stealing money from the phone
company by not paying for long distance calls that were being made.
Bill Gates and his partner, Paul Allen, were getting very frustrated because they were
not moving anywhere in the computer business. So they went to IBM to try and sell
them something call DOS but to Bill Gates and Paul, DOS was just an idea and not a
reality. Bill and Paul thoroughly explained the idea of DOS to IBM and it worked very
well. IBM then bought DOS from Bill and Paul not knowing that Bill and Paul did not have
DOS.
Selling DOS to IBM was unethical because Bill Gates lied by saying that he had the DOS
program even though he did not. He tricked IBM into thinking that he had the program
and told them he did have it even though he did not.
--------------------------------------------------------------------The Pirates of Silicon Valley is a film about Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Computers
and Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft. This film historically traces the development of
these two computer companies from the time these two gentlemen are college (the early to
mid 1970s) to approximately 3 months before Steve Jobs was fired by John Sculley, then
CEO of Apple Computer in 1985.
This story shows not only the development of these two computer companies, but also the
rivalry between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. It highlights the computer giants of that time, who
were Hewlett Packard, Xerox and IBM. However, the idea of the personal computer was just
gaining speed and this is where both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates found their niche.
What many people dont know about these revolutionaries is that they worked together
until Steve Jobs realized that Bill Gates developed Windows from software Apple had
designed for their computers.
Why is it called "Pirates of Silicon Valley?" The irony of this situation is that Apple stole
the windows concept from Xerox; hence the title, The PIRATES of Silicon Valley.
Silicon Valley is an area of northern California where the computer development of the
1980s and 1990s surged.
The button line of the story it relates the sad facts that Steve Jobs had disaffected so
many of his former best friends that none of them wanted to toast him for his 30th birthday,
in fact, three months later Steve Jobs was fired from the company he helped found. He was
later re-hired in 1997 and became the architect of the second Apple Microsoft co-endeavor
bringing the companies and the movie full circle. Even though Steve Jobs was fired from the
company, it was then not a waste because he was happily living with his family.
This film is a wonderful illustration of modern day entrepreneurs and gives us an inside
look at the management style of both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.I would recommend this film
to anyone, student or not. It is an enlightening depiction of the evolution of a true
phenomenon, the age of personal computers. Even more so, this film shows the men behind
the machines, a story that shouldnt be missed.
