<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Following on the history tidbits in the TRON thread, today AdaFruit posted a link to a 1982 video on UNIX.<br><br><a href="http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/09/06/the-unix-operating-system/">http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/09/06/the-unix-operating-system/</a> <div>"video from 1982 featuring Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Alfred Aho, and Lorinda Cherry discussing key features of UNIX." </div><div>(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tc4ROCJYbm0#!">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tc4ROCJYbm0#!</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>Lots of topics are introduced as new and cool that we now take for granted.</div><div>At the time, UNIX had been available with commercial support by 3rd party companies for 6+ years.</div><div><br></div><div>Its a nice to look back at historical origins - although it is also an example of brilliant techies poorly producing videos (stilted speech, etc)</div><div><br><div>
<div>Jerry Isdale</div><div><a href="mailto:isdale@gmail.com">isdale@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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