[hackerspaces] Fwd: The UNIX Operating System « adafruit industries blog

[Matt Joyce]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMKuv0A6z4

piffle.  this is way cooler.

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Jerry Isdale <isdale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Following on the history tidbits in the TRON thread, today AdaFruit posted a
> link to a 1982 video on UNIX.
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> http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/09/06/the-unix-operating-system/
> "video from 1982 featuring Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan,
> Alfred Aho, and Lorinda Cherry discussing key features of UNIX."
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tc4ROCJYbm0#!)
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> Lots of topics are introduced as new and cool that we now take for granted.
> At the time, UNIX had been available with commercial support by 3rd party
> companies for 6+ years.
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> Its a nice to look back at historical origins - although it is also an
> example of brilliant techies poorly producing videos (stilted speech, etc)
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> Jerry Isdale
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