Stuff that really bugs me

[derf]

The word 'app'. Its a damn program, an application designed for a specific use or reason. I was talking to my father earlier today, about phones and every other word out of g his mouth was app. Then I lay down for bed and there is afriggin show about the 'app'.

The word app was conceived in a room filled with marketing executives.

[101lifts2]

Why can't an application run several programs?

[Avatard]

Originally Posted by derf

The word 'app'. Its a damn program, an application designed for a specific use or reason. I was talking to my father earlier today, about phones and every other word out of g his mouth was app. Then I lay down for bed and there is afriggin show about the 'app'.

The word app was conceived in a room filled with marketing executives.

The term "app" is quite old, and the term "killer app" was historically used to describe the single "must have" application program that effectively "sold" a given platform. Like it or not, the word is neither new, nor dreamed up by some marketing dweeb. It's as old school as the PARC.

[Homeslice]

"app" wasn't used until the 90's, if I recall correctly. Before then, people said program.

[Avatard]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

"app" wasn't used until the 90's, if I recall correctly. Before then, people said program.

When I started playing with computers, they were called apps. That was around DOS 4.1. I had a 386SX 16 with 4 megs of RAM and a 20 MB hard drive.

It cost $3600

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Avatard

When I started playing with computers, they were called apps. That was around DOS 4.1. I had a 386SX 16 with 4 megs of RAM and a 20 MB hard drive.

It cost $3600

We were using the term back in the DOS 2.1 days

Originally Posted by Particle Man

Annoyed? There's an app for that.

[OTB]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

We were using the term back in the DOS 2.1 days

...with an IBM 8088 processor running at 4.77 mhz and 16K of RAM and 2- 5.25 inch floppies...no hard drive. You loaded the boot floppy into A, fired it up, and proceeded to swap floppies till the OS was loaded.

The OS floppies you kept in your OS box....then you went to your APPS box and proceeded to get the 8-10 floppies so you could load LOTUS 1-2-3......or Word.........it usually took about 15 minutes to get your computer so you could use it......kinda like Vista today

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by OTB

...with an IBM 8088 processor running at 4.77 mhz and 16K of RAM and 2- 5.25 inch floppies...no hard drive. You loaded the boot floppy into A, fired it up, and proceeded to swap floppies till the OS was loaded.

The OS floppies you kept in your OS box....then you went to your APPS box and proceeded to get the 8-10 floppies so you could load LOTUS 1-2-3......or Word.........it usually took about 15 minutes to get your computer so you could use it......kinda like Vista today

I had a V20 chip, not a 8086 or 8088. Dual 360K, double-sided FDDs. Big 256K of memory. Eventually managed to buy a 30 Meg RLL hard drive for $650.00 (dealer cost). Big-time performance, buddy

[Sean]

Originally Posted by OTB

...with an IBM 8088 processor running at 4.77 mhz and 16K of RAM and 2- 5.25 inch floppies...no hard drive. You loaded the boot floppy into A, fired it up, and proceeded to swap floppies till the OS was loaded.

The OS floppies you kept in your OS box....then you went to your APPS box and proceeded to get the 8-10 floppies so you could load LOTUS 1-2-3......or Word.........it usually took about 15 minutes to get your computer so you could use it......kinda like Vista today

I remember doing that in our Mac 128k. You could either have a "system disk" with software on it that had very little room for save files (if it fit) or you could put the OS on one disk, boot up, then put the software disk in.

Then we got a second drive. I thought it was cool watching it access one drive, then go to the other, then back as it needed it

[Homeslice]

But back then, nobody in programming said "I'm writing an app", they said "I'm writing a program", and then you followed up by saying what language it was being written in.