AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System

Jeff Goldblum is a man of many talents huh?

Look at AT&T back in those days programming Unix 50 years ago. Look at them now present day...

unix runs the world now. servers, mobile phones, game consoles etc. its amazing most people think windows is all there is

This ended up being far more engaging than I expected.

Thumbs down...tired of stupid shyt on my feed

Having bierd is must?

After this genius, end users were saddled with DOS variants and windows.

As a Linux user in my work life, I’m constantly battling with making windows concessions to support end users without sacrificing security or good networking practices.

This time was the genesis of computer science, but also the beginning of creating methods to restrict people's freedoms through restrictions, bans, surveillance, etc. Compare with the present!

Fascinating to hear them name drop Mythical Man Month.

That's why BWK is my favorite writer.

The intro could have been spoken even today. Amazing to know the work I do today is so similar to the work these giants were doing back in the 70s and 80s

My ❤ just broke out ...the world's best hardware sparc based running the world's best operating system Sun Solaris the first 64 bit OS died ....😢

Nerds!!!

Wow, Joe Pera in the intro, amazing.

Microchip architecture design & fabrication is so fascinating...

Зачётный ролик

the guys who writes the program that follow the brief instructions to create program:

ah yes tech people trying to feel special because of their autism by using tools that nobody knows their jargon and making simple problems more complex than it already is simply to justify their paid salaries.

Math doesn't matter these days.

My favorite software product that came out of Bell Labs is not Unix, C or C++ but a totally fantastic string processing language called SNOBOL4. There is nothing as powerful as SNOBOL4 for pattern matching - not even regular expression based languages (e.g.awk, sed etc.). R.I.P. SNOBOL4. But I do have an old Catspaw Inc. version of SNOBOL4 installed on my Windows PC, though - which I use when I get bored.😊

my Grandfather was recruited by both Bell & IBM & after what the government did to Bell, he would sometimes tell me how he wished he had taken the IBM deal but Bell had submitted their offer first & so he took it, & the next day IBM made a similar offer but he had already given his word to Bell & the end of that story is 40-some years of work, he loses a chunk of his retirement to government shenanigans, & then he chokes to death because his daughter flunked out of nursing school & I was on vacation.. another funny part of all that is he didn't tell me this until years after I also turned down an offer from IBM, hahaha.. I honestly thought my software company would go somewhere in the 90s but I watched so many companies appear from nowhere while my business partners essentially ran us into the ground

You could put this video in front of an 18-year-old who is just learning how to use GIT Bash and most of it would be totally applicable still. That speaks to the enduring brilliance and elegance of UNIX and all the operating systems and tools that have taken inspiration from it

Lg experia at&t transit map.
Samsung u.m.t.

Im would be betting on Microsoft Windows will run off the Linux kernel in the near future

I'm afraid that this technology of programming by everyone was not stupid, it was not prepared enough. This was a trying to create the code using employees that not prepared to code. Maybe it will change, but then it was a pretty not-intelligent idea.

As I was taught, "Everything is a file..." Redirection and piping... the true joy of UNIX.... ;-)

Now that there’s plenty of programmers and nobody cares about spelling any more, Can we get rid of Unix?

Thes people are kinda dumb. Why didnt they just use windows 11 and python?

if i was born in 1970. i would have viewed the computer as a "tool".
luckily i was borin in 1980 and viewed it more as a "gaming machine"

These geniuses were my heroes like rock stars.
Once at a USENIX conference, I saw Dennis Ritchie talking to 3-4 people. Having never met him, I was not going to miss a chance to shake his hand, so I walked up to this group, stuck my hand out he shook my hand.
I was so star-struck, that I blurted out "So glad to meet you Dr. Kernighan"...
After AT&T bought BellSouth where I worked, I sent Dr. Ritchie an email describing my incredibly embarrassing moment.
He replied with "that's ok, I often get mistaken for Brian"

I still have those emails on a 3.5" floppy

I wonder if "true" UNIX systems are still used in a significant manner, the last time I saw one was in the early 2000's in college in biochemistry lab, they had a Silicon Graphics workstation running IRIX if I remember correctly mainly used for protein modelling.

Microsoft’s rendition is an abomination in comparison, truly a “weed” in every sense of the word! It has proliferated & infiltrated the world over causing no mean level of frustration to anyone who wants to think in terms of clean logical simple structures, instead throwing them against walls without “Windoze”!!

Downvote all corporations!

Anyone else catch the few times they did some ADR on a few words? It helps if you have a earphones, but you can hear when the audio gets weird and doesn’t match the lips a few times. It’s really strange once you pick up on it.

Gonna try that piping sequence 😅

Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie are two of the most profound computer icons or pioneers that I can possibly think of. Day after day for most of the day my time is spent in a programming language fathered by Dennis Ritchie and that is the c language. Dennis, may God rest his soul, was an absolute uncontested genius. I really enjoyed this documentary.

One of the best videos I've ever seen

Excellent video. It's great to see Ritchie, Thompson and others. Their book on C was a really a bible for me. Now I'm using C++, Java and other languages that evolved from C, but C was at the beginning. And not to mention a PDP computer in the background and VT100 terminals. Great stuff.

vysotsky vovremia siebal

linux is cool!

Alfred Aho of Aho-Crosick?

brian gives off gigachad vibes

Pure science without marketing bullshit. Computers were computers but not toys. Great era.

The home of Unix .

Before AT&T was greedy and shut down 2G

Note! AT&T never claimed to have developed the Unix operating system. Dennis Ritchie created Unix because the DEC OS RTX++--+- was so bad. AT&T claimed ownership through a "Yellow Dog" clause in his contract. Then AT&T sold it to businesses and colleges.