Skip to main content
Back to Show
Crash Course Computer Science

Operating Systems: Crash Course Computer Science #18

Season 1 Episode 18

So as you may have noticed from last episode, computers keep getting faster and faster, and by the start of the 1950s they had gotten so fast that it often took longer to manually load programs via punch cards than to actually run them! The solution was the operating system (or OS), which is just a program with special privileges that allows it to run and manage other programs. So today, we’re goi

Support Provided By
Boolean Logic & Logic Gates: Crash Course Computer Science #3
10:01
We’re going to focus on three fundamental operations - NOT, AND, and OR.
Electronic Computing: Crash Course Computer Science #2
10:43
As the scale of human civilization continued to grow as did the demand for more devices.
Early Computing: Crash Course Computer Science #1
11:36
Today, we’re going to take a look at computing’s origins.
Active loading indicator