From the course: Operating System Forensics
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History
- [Instructor] In the '60s, computers were huge and expensive. They were as big as a large room and called mainframes because people had to share a single machine remotely through terminals connected via a communication channel. I still remember my college days when our email system was available on a mainframe computer. Unix and it's variations were the dominant operating systems, or OS, for these mainframes systems. Then, a technological revolution called personal computer, or PC, occurred in the 1980s. PCs started replacing mainframe computers and providing more flexible and economical solutions to everyday tasks like email, word processing, and surfing the internet. IBM began building PCs in 1981. Disk Operating System, or DOS, and it's variants, including Microsoft, or MS-DOS, were the first OSs for IBM PCs and its clones. These used floppy disks as its storage mechanism. Apple released the Macintosh in 1984 with it's own OS called System 1. Forensics tools at this time were…
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