First some corrections
- Studying informatics, you don't learn the usage of programs.
You learn to design, program and test new programs,
to develop, design and build new hardware
and to research for new ways and solutions¹.
- Bill Gates breaked off his "computer science"-studies
in the very first year².
- Microsoft had not developed MS-DOS,
but bought it for 50 000 US-Dollars;
Its original name was
QDOS "Quick and Dirty Operation System"²³.
- AmigaOS offers since 1985 priority driven,
preemtive multi-tasking and multi-threading,
has a functional, clear structured and easy programable
graphical user interface,
automatical hardware detection (autoconfig®)
and a true 32-bit architecture.
More about the Amiga.
- 1995 (ten years later):
MS-Windows is able to do 'cooperative multitasking'.
More clearly: every program has to be cooperative,
to have a system which looks like multi-tasking.
For all really interested computer fans, i recommend to read
Robert X. Cringely
Accidental Empires
Addison Wesley, 1992
ISBN 0-201-57032-7
This book is very entertaining, but also disillusioning.
It puts more light in some dark corners of the IT industry and its history
to show things you would not see without.
In the 24th century it is a must for scientists
who study computer's history.
Here are some pages about information technologie and the W³
- Dilbert
- You don't know Dilbert yet?
These comics are about daily sorrows of a software engineer,
which happen to that Dilbert guy.
Some of them may seem well known to you - i realy don't wish you that!
¹:
One may study informatics at the academy of Vulcan.
This is perhaps not a possibility for you,
so you should apply to the
Technische Universität München
for
informatik (TU).
The
Fachhochschule München
also provides
informatik (FH).
²:
Robert X. Cringely, "Accidental Empires".
Addison Wesley, 1992;
³: "Duden Informatik", Dudenverlag, 2.Auflage 1993.
