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Early Systems

Explore the development of early operating systems with a focus on basic memory management and the lack of virtualization. Understand how limited user expectations led to simple system designs and how this contrasts with modern OS complexities introduced by higher demands.

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In the early days, building computer systems was easy. Why do you ask? Because users didn’t expect much. It is those darned users with their expectations of “ease of use”, “high performance”, ...