VJFranzK
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Posts: 27 | Was the MCP an early OS? It managed other programs, and user contact, so...
on Monday, January, 10, 2011 5:24 PM
As an Apple user (ducks to avoid flames!) I see Microsoft* allegories in both movies,
*though Encom was most likely an IBM parody, given the date of the original.
but any OS bickering** aside -
Was the MCP an early (scary!) form of the type of OS that we use today?
To the programs, he was a tyrant, but he did:
1. manage everything that happened in the system
2. handle most contact between the users and the programs,
and "peripherals" as we used to call printers, scanners, digitizing lasers, etc...
Thinking about this, maybe I'll go back to surfing the web on my Atari 130XE 8Bit,
and save my programs some tyrany. ;-)
**Alan seems to be in a very Open Source / Linux type mood at the beginning of Legacy,
advocating "free OS" and all that.
He does have a point - actually free distribution of OS might help the large companies also,
given the fact that they would have to tech support fewer incompatibilities?
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Posts: 39 | RE: Was the MCP an early OS? It managed other programs, and user contact, so...
on Monday, January, 10, 2011 7:09 PM
I can see how MCP could be an OS, but I don't think he was the actual operating system. Before the MCP, the programs were free, etc. but the point is they existed without the MCP. If he were an actual OS, the whole world would have shut down when he got shut down. I'd say he has the qualities of an operating system, but I don't think he was meant to be an early OS, or and OS in general.order abortion pill abortion pill buy online where to buy abortion pill
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BluPhnix
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Posts: 51 | RE: Was the MCP an early OS? It managed other programs, and user contact, so...
on Monday, January, 10, 2011 8:46 PM
He, MCP, kinda seemed, to me, like a really extreme form of Anti-Virus software, in the sense of control over functions. Obviously, Tron was a type of Anti-Virus, seeing as how he was of course, a security program set up by Alan. Tron though, wasn't set up to enact control over the system. Just keep it safe and "fight for the users"!! LOL.Anyhow, the MCP though, was power mad and went ubber strict on all the programs. order abortion pill abortion pill buy online where to buy abortion pill
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IsoLine
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Posts: 1,025 | RE: Was the MCP an early OS? It managed other programs, and user contact, so...
on Monday, January, 10, 2011 11:10 PM
| Scottn Wrote:I can see how MCP could be an OS, but I don't think he was the actual operating system. Before the MCP, the programs were free, etc. but the point is they existed without the MCP. If he were an actual OS, the whole world would have shut down when he got shut down. I'd say he has the qualities of an operating system, but I don't think he was meant to be an early OS, or and OS in general. |
Well, if you remember some of the lines in the movie, the MCP started as a chess program, so perhaps it was not meant to be an OS. I think what the MCP was, is an early experiment in AI that eventually became not necessarily an operating system but a controlling program within the Encom mainframe.
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Posts: 39 | RE: Was the MCP an early OS? It managed other programs, and user contact, so...
on Monday, January, 10, 2011 11:25 PM
Yeah, I was going to mention the chess program quote, but I wasn't sure if it was an exaggeration or not.
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MultiVMan
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Posts: 27 | RE: Was the MCP an early OS? It managed other programs, and user contact, so...
on Tuesday, January, 11, 2011 6:40 AM
imho - I think the MCP as a Garbage Collector that managed the memory in which the programs ran.
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I'm busy compiling...
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