The early days of Unix at Bell Labs
summary
Chronicles Unix growing from a tiny PDP-7 experiment into a production system on a PDP-11 that ships a usable Sixth Edition by 1975 with about 9,000 lines of C, a man page for cat dated 1971, and ports to Interdata and VAX. Describes concrete inventions—pipes and filters, grep, yacc, lex—and credits C and a portable compiler for making the OS portable, spawning workstations, BSD networking, and eventually Linux.
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chapters (26)
- 0:00Intro
- 11:17Ken Thompson
- 12:03Unix
- 14:52Cat
- 15:26Market forecast
- 16:04Unix Heritage Society
- 17:21C
- 20:11Doug Michael Ray
- 21:12Pipes
- 24:39Building tools
- 26:38Pocket calculator
- 27:28Word list
- 29:09Unix 6th edition
- 32:40Portability
- 34:29IBM PC
- 35:09Unix is everywhere
- 35:51Recognition
- 36:19Jurassic Park
- 36:38The Rise of Unix
- 38:50Linus Torvalds
- 39:42Unix Fan Club
- 40:11Technical legacy of Unix
- 41:15The essence of Unix
- 42:34How did Unix come about
- 44:38Is there a monopoly on good people
- 46:27Unix was meant to provide a community
