talks Unix and Linux history
summary
Chronicles Unix from 1969 to 2019 with concrete milestones: Unix’s innovation of a small kernel and lots of user-space enabling portability; AT&T’s license costing $160,000 per CPU (later $350 for binaries); Linux kernel reaches v1.0 in 1994 and a coordinated port to Alpha in nine months (Alpha shipped with 96 MB RAM, 4 GB disk), producing a working system and Melo bootloader contribution; student project builds an FPGA GPU in three months, demonstrating practical, open-source longevity.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 16:03What Did You Do with the Unix
- 33:41Alpha System
- 41:14Charles Babbage
- 42:20Porting of Linux
- 43:35When Did Linux Start on the Arm
- 49:21Raspberry Pi
