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- I want to thank viewer Lance for pointing out that NeXTSTEP derives from Mach, the CMU variant of BSD. I will mention this in the forthcoming Unix Wars video too, so please forgive me there.
- I have made an error with regards to Berkeley EECS. Soda Hall is only the CS building. The EE building is Cory. I done goofed. I apologize.
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
I appreciate that you compared the cost of computers to the cost of a graduate student - that is an accurate way to depict what that relationship looks like
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Denis Ritchie is an underappreciated legend of IT history, nice to hear his name mentioned here. He and Jobs passed away on the same month and of course Jobs got all the mentions and credits while Ritchie was barely mentioned at all. Thanks for this.
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When I worked at AT&T in the 80's, I went to the Murray Hill Bell Labs facility for a day-long conference. At lunch, my wife (who was also an employee), one of my co-workers, Martin, and I decided to wander around looking for "famous people". We wandered into the lab in area 11 where Unix was born, and Dennis Ritchie was sitting at terminal typing. We told him we were there to see "famous people". He laughed and asked if we wanted to see the first Unix bug. When we said yes, he held up a glass jar containing a dead cockroach.
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lost it at "vim - a text editor some people like" 🤣
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one way to feel old: you see a video of a historic review of things that happened during your professional lifetime. I fondly remember playing with a multics system in the ep500 scouts Wednesday nights after school. It had variable length segments of memory and we wrote code for it in PL/1.
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To think, Bell Labs nearly had a monopoly on one of the most important computer systems in the known world.
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Correction: 'ex' was not WYSIWYG, but a line editor always displaying only the line currently edited in a file, just like 'ed' on which it was based.
Billy Joy then used 'ex' as a base for his first 'vi' editor with 'vi' derived from 'visual' standing for the at that time pretty revolutionary new 'visual' mode that by using terminal commands let the user navigate through a text file on screen as we know it today.
'vim' came much later and isn't even based on the original 'vi' source code (according to Wikipedia its forefather was a vi clone called 'stevie').
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haha "and pluto" nice clarification there.
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As a fledging EE in 1974, I was fortunate to join Digital in Maynard where I worked with the PDP-11 team. I enjoyed the vintage photos of the hardware and of some of my colleagues that I enjoyed working with. I left Digital to become a software engineer in 1982, joining a Pittsburgh startup called "3 Rivers Computer Corporation". Our hardware was an innovative workstation called the PeRQ. Gordon Bell joined us briefly after leaving Digital.
One of our major projects at 3RCC, done under contract in Edinburgh for ICL (a major UK supplier at the time), was a port of Unix using "C-Codes". Our hardware was a bytecode machine (very fast for its day) and we developed a bytecode interpreter for C. We used a portable assembler to generate C-Codes from standard C. That let us run Unix on our hardware.
This piece reminded me how much fun we had in the early years of the workstation world.
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Ahh yes, Bill Joy. Beyond the nerds and the hobbyists, he's criminally underrated among techies. It's a damn shame more people in the Google era of internet don't know about Sun as much as they do early Microsoft or Apple, maybe even Commodore and Atari.
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Good work so far. I have one disagreement. Take macOS, still a Unix (and OpenSource since its beginning) certified system, being the successor to NextStep. And all other Apple OSes (iOS; iPad, WatchOS, tvOS and soon VisionOS) also share the same fundamentals, kernel and framework. Also, though seen as different, Linux is, on purpose, a close open source variant. Let's not argue about the variation of kernels... What I'm saying is that all the concepts of Unix are still widely present in all those Operating Systems. Unix has not fallen at all, it is the dominating philosophy of all modern operating systems. Windows is extremely marginal in fact, as all the operating systems I mentioned are present in many more devices than PCs. Think mobiles phones, access points, switches, routers, IoT, cars, etc.... Unix variants are really dominating.
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First video of the year and already hitting it out of the park. Great video.
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When I was in the navy all of the weapons and sonar systems ran on some flavor of Unix or Linux. Windows was just for email. This is still true today because of the flexibility it offers. In fact I'd say that the US military is probably the largest user of unix/Linux. It's not going away any time soon
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Unix is at the core of every Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and AppleTV made today, ever since Apple bought Next in the ‘90s and released MacOS X (which was originally NextStep).
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This video helps me understand some things that happened in the software world while I was otherwise occupied working in OS/360, VMS, MS-DOS, Windows 95, and Windows NT environments. I hope there will be a next video, or maybe it's two videos, about the proprietary Unix wars and the subsequent rise of open source and Linux. One of the most fascinating things to hear in this video was that the Bell Labs inclination toward open source was the result of an antitrust action taken by government.
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This begs for a part 2!!
Part 2 should go from 1983 to about 1993. Part 3 should go from 1993 to 2003. Part 4 should go from 2003 at least until Android, until 2013. Part 5 would also be interesting going from 2013 to 2023....
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I hope we get to listen to the Unix Wars soon. Thanks for the great production!
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Thanks for the nod to BCPL, the first language that I used in professional capacity back in 1981. It's a beautifully simple language that can work nicely where memory space is very limited.
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Looking forward to a part 2, which is implied by the conclusion.
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@Arivia1
4 months ago
"Vim, a text editor, that some people like" this is the kind of diplomatic phrase that starts world wars. Wonderfully stated.
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