- •Учебное пособие
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- •Часть I 6
- •Часть II 32
- •Часть I great britain.
- •Задание к тексту.
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- •Scotland.
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- •From the history of london.
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- •I. Прочитайте первый абзац текста и ответьте на вопросы:
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- •Britain’s press.
- •James clerk maxwell
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- •A lesson in the history of little things
- •Structure of matter
- •States of matter solids, liquids and gases
- •What is an electron?
- •Gravitation
- •Uses of electricity
- •Solar energy
- •Atomic energy.
- •Peaceful atom
- •The telegraph
- •Modern electronics
- •Cosmonautics
- •Radio-electronics today
- •Astronomy and radio
- •The future of cybernetics
- •Our solar family
- •Life in space
- •The morning star (venus)
- •The moon
- •Why does the moon follow us when we drive.
- •Why is the sky blue?
- •What is the milky way?
- •Comets.
- •Comet in our universe.
- •Eclipse experiment may explain why sun is so hot
- •Man and his environment
- •The environment
- •Pollution
- •Did dragons ever exist?
- •How do we know what dinosaurs were like?
- •How did dinosaurs evolve?
- •Tornadoes
- •Computers.
- •The history of personal computing
- •Masters of invention
- •What's your opinion of computer games?
- •Life in their hands
- •Internet
- •Web jam
- •Will the internet affect the practice of medicine?
- •By bill gates
- •Innovation feeds success in the pc industry
- •The checkered flag of the leader
The checkered flag of the leader
Once I saw an article in a newspaper which said that you hardly could find a computer where Norton Commander or its analogue wasn't installed. 1 think you also can't find a computer where there is no Microsoft product.
Microsoft's success began when IBM asked it to develop an operating system for its new computer. So MS-DOS appeared. Later such systems as DR-DOS and PC-DOS emerged,, but Microsoft's aggressive policy didn't allow them to become popular, in Russia the system PTS-DOS (PTS means PhysTechSoft) was developed, but t don't think it has been installed even in one per cent of computers in Russia. MS-DOS remained the most popular operating system until 1995.
In 1981 the first version of Ms Windows was issued. It wasn't an operating system, because when computer started, it loaded MS-DOS, and later one could run Windows. But Windows also became very popular. It was the first system that allowed to run more than one program at a time. It wasn't relevant for users in 1981, because most of them had no hard disk, but it was important for companies. And as computers have been developed, and hard disk appeared in every computer, and they began to grow (it's difficult to believe, but ten years ago we considered a hard disk which had the size of 40 Mb to be huge), Windows appeared in each computer.
IBM became the competitor of Microsoft, when it developed the operating system OS/2. A lot of computer specialists think that OS/2 is much better than Windows. I don't know, I haven't worked with OS/2. But the fact is that it has been never installed in more than 10 per cent of computers throughout the world. In 1995, Windows finally became an operating system. The system Windows '95 was issued. Nearly everyone thinks that his duty is to abuse Windows '95 (in FIDO it is called MustDie95), but nearly everyone now works with this system. When the market of operating system was seized by Microsoft, it began seizing the market of internet browsers. Before the leader of this market was the company Netscape, with its browser Netscape Navigator. And Microsoft having issued its Microsoft Explorer, there wasn't any considerable reaction. But when Microsoft began to deliver its browser with Windows '95, it became much more popular. By the end of 1997, 31 per cent of the market belonged to Microsoft Explorer.
Now Bill Gates, the president of Microsoft, wants to design computer, which will control all everyday apparatus at home. You will be able to operate with any apparatus, including lamps, from this computer. In any case there is already such a computer in Gates house, and through Internet Gates can manipulate his apparatus even from the other side of the earth. But when he tried to demonstrate it at the exhibition MacExpo '97 the computer hung up.
By YUSUP