UNIX: A History and Memoir - Book Review

The back cover says, "This book is part history and part memoir. It tells the story of the origin of Unix, explaining what Unix is, how it came about, and why it matters." Sounds impressive. Now that I have read, cover-to-cover, is the sleeve blurb accurate? Let's find out.

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[ravimali]

Liked this cinematography and Gary without cap. You should more often do videos in this kind of natural setup.

[esra_erimez]

Is it just me? Or, is this format awesome?

[poweruser]

Excellent use of music! I have noticed that the usage of music is one of the things that this channel has struggled with in the past, but this video really hit the nail on the head.

Thank you for the awesome content. Keep it up!

[bartniaux]

Thanks Gary for bringing up magnetic core memories in your review. I flashed back to the late sixties when I worked on my first DEC and SEL computers.

[esra_erimez]

"A Quarter Century of UNIX", by Peter H. Salus is an important read too.

[suvetar]

Ooh! I want to read this! Thanks for sharing, Gary!

[nimrodlevy]

Thanks for bringing this review im picking this one up. awk is a friend of mine for many many years 😉

[venkataravieluri]

Really enjoyed your review. For sure I will read it.

[asrgomes]

I’m adding this one to my wishlist. Thanks!

[paulbrugge]

Another excellent article on the development of UNIX was in the obituary for Dennis Ritchie in IEEE Spectrum magazine. Not sure what issue it was though.

[AMVTUBE]

Hey gary i by mistakely enroll into google advance protection without using any security key now i am loked out and i cant access to my youtube account please guide me what should i do i was having almost 50k subs 😭

[TechnicolorMammoth]

Well, this is fitting. I saw this book on Amazon, since it was recommended to me, and I went, "Is this really worth my time?". Thank you for the review, I now have another book to read this summer it looks!

[hpp]

Nice review! A whole series on 'awk' would be highly appreciated!

[SuhasD]

i loved it.

I would love to know how screen readers work
if you could do a video on it, I'd be very glad!

[mickinmerton]

Im going to buy this book out of nostalga. Im about to stop working on UNIX after 38 years. Roll on Linux

[jawsD]

Hi Gary. Could you make a video explaining whether dual channel memory affects graphics performance of computers with dedicated VRAM?

[MarkKeller]

*GARY!!!*
*Good Afternoon Professor!*
*Good Afternoon Fellow Classmates!*

[alliejr]

Thanks for this, Gary. Sounds like “Soul of a New Machine” by Kidder.

[willalmur]

I would disagree. The book was a nice addition, kind of an episode guest.

[johngrwf]

Fascinating, we owe so much to Ritchie, Kernighan et al...