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love the honesty. I'm not as old as Dave, but I've been working as a software engineer for 25 years. It's so true the first version "we don't know" what the code needs to be. You're lucky if you get to the third version. Today it's more common to have moved to some other project and someone else is rewriting it.
One reason I love doing open source work, I get to go back and clean things up. When I get to delete code to cleanup/simplify, it feels great.
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Programmer since 1970, now retired. I was always working on embedded systems, but like Dave I stuck to the code and avoided several offers to go into management. Started on an IBM 360, but moved to microprocessors as soon as they became available. Started with a 6502, and my last processor was a 256-core AI chip. I also enjoyed custom chip verification before they went to the foundry.
I was actually one of the first Commodore 64 users, because they sent me a prototype (called the VIC-40 at the time), so I could write a book on it that went beyond writing aps in BASIC. Fun times.
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Writing a task manager helps one learn internals. Back in '75-'76, writing a view into IBM VS1's job queue, running jobs, and output queue taught me a lot about VS1's internals. Later updated it for MVS and a view into TCAM's internal control blocks. This upset operations when the programmers saw what was or more importantly, why their jobs were sitting in the job queue while other jobs were jumping in ahead of theirs.
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Haha...my very first experience with computers was when I was told by my mom I MUST take Computer Class as an elective (she was hoping I'd get into IT, which I was uninterested at the time...bad move on my part). Thus, the very first program that existed I learned with MS DOS which existed LONG before Windows did. Thank you for inventing the Task Manager! Super handy! We've come a long ways from DOS!
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So many stories and so much advice from Dave Plummer - the original creator of task manager and other interesting software like unzip on Microsoft Windows. Did the NSA have a backdoor in Microsoft Windows? Should you learn Rust or GoLang? Learn from someone who has years of development experience! // Dave’s Social // Youtube: youtube.com/@DavesGarage Twitter: twitter.com/davepl1968 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidplummer // Great videos on Dave's channel // Windows Task Manager: https://youtu.be/Ve95Nh690l0 Windows Clock: https://youtu.be/Ve95Nh690l0 Windows Start Menu: https://youtu.be/HrDovsqJT3U Windows Zip Folders; https://youtu.be/aQUtUQ_L8Yk Windows Activation: https://youtu.be/FpKNFCFABp0 // Great Playlist on Dave's channel // youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF2KJ6Gy3cZ7jCgV1VEAIcr… // David's SOCIAL // Discord: discord.gg/davidbombal Twitter: www.twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: www.instagram.com/davidbombal LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal Facebook: www.facebook.com/davidbombal.co TikTok: tiktok.com/@davidbombal // MY STUFF // www.amazon.com/shop/davidbombal // SPONSORS // Interested in sponsoring my videos? Reach out to my team here: sponsors@davidbombal.com/ // Menu // 00:00- Coming up 01:01- Dave Plummer's history 02:26- Dave's Garage 03:33- How Dave started at MicroSoft 06:15- Task Manager 10:36- Other Operating Systems 11:06- What OS is Dave coding on? 11:30- How Dave got into coding 13:14- Advice to younger people 14:18- Sell your work, not yourself 15:38- Still coding long after Microsoft 16:22- Visual Zip 18:40- Show your work 19:31- Was it easier in the old days? 21:07- Would you use Rust today? 21:43- Should I learn C? 22:10- What language is Windows written in? 23:14- ZIG and other programming languages 25:05- Start with Python 26:32- Write your code right 27:00- Windows 95 vs NT 30:00- 20-year-old code still in Windows 30:47- Task manager is still the same 31:11- Politics between Win 95 and NT team 31:48- Product Activation 33:42- Loved for task manager; hated for Windows activation 35:05- Open Source 36:00- Who is looking at your code? 37:15- NSA and backdoor access to Windows 38:07- Sneaking code into Windows 38:53- Windows Easter eggs 39:54- Doom on Excel 40:17- Secret messages in MS DOS 40:46- Pinball 43:49- The Start menu 45:08- Calculator and Clock 47:58- Blue screen of death 48:59- Chat GPT 51:01- Chat GPT and bad code 51:30- Plans with your channel 52:27- Meeting Dave in person 52:45- Outro
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