Unix: History and Memoir

In 50 years, the #Unix operating system has gone from a tiny two-person experiment in a New Jersey attic to a multi-billion dollar industry whose products and services are an integral part of the world’s computing infrastructure. Along the way, there have been many changes, but a surprisingly large amount is in fact almost unchanged from when it started.

How did this come about? What are the good #ideas in Unix that have been preserved and even spread? What are the good ideas that have fallen by the wayside? What are the not so good ideas that have prospered? And what might the future hold?

As someone who was present at the creation (though certainly not responsible for it), I’ll present some humble but correct opinions on these and related topics.

#nerdearla
Brian Kernighan

[jerrydelapp]

Thank you for mentioning "'Software Tools" and Plaugher... In my early career (1981) I, found this book incredibly influential. I think Plaugher's contributions the progress of CS to be underrated,

[DelkorYT]

Great presentation. I have never worked at Bell Labs, never used UNIX, never dived deep into any of these topics but I now feel nostalgia for the golden age

[fgngejw]

very interesting talk, questions and the guests. cheers!

[darkdaegurth]

Historia pura. Privilegiados en ser contemporáneos de tales bestias.

[nebursp]

Que lindo escucharlos. La historia del nacimiento del g/re/p la cuenta con mucho mas detalle y gracia en otros videos también.

[summercameron]

before mid 1980's how did UNIX address memory protection?

[domaincontroller]

25:04 tools 26:43 grep 34:00 technical legacy

[guillermotomasini]

buenos aires? hermosa ciudad. UNIX the best OS ever.

[guillermotomasini]

Microsoft's Unix was Xenix. For my mother 79 years old I installed linux and never a problem.

[esphilee]

That explained the C. I have been wondering why C, apparently, C came after B…