Really? Pipes were only introduced to UNIX in 1983? Other operating systems had them built-in around that time. The Sinclair QL's QDOS, which was developed in 1983 and released on January 12, 1984, had pipes built into its kernel and that was a small microkernel OS. I would have thought pipes were integral way before that, so that's quite surprising.
@@8BitRetroJournal Pipes were introduced to UNIX back in 1973, he's just saying his introduction to UNIX was via the Berkeley Software Distribution, which helped popularise UNIX outside AT&T and evolved into the FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD operating systems (among others!) today. Fun fact: the BSD daemon logo commonly known as "Beastie" originates in a cartoon drawn by Phil Foglio in 1976 of daemons clambering over pipework plumbed up around a PDP-11, with a tap from the pipes dripping into a bucket labelled "NULL". The Dartmouth Time-Sharing System had a similar concept called "communication files" back in the 1960s.
@@mrj505 Oh, my bad. Thanks for the clarification. I read the "I" as "It" accidentally and it didn't make much sense. It was neat seeing the demo the one gent gave and he wasn't using pipes just routing, so I wonder when the | operator was introduced.
These guys paved the path for all the personal computing that came later, including Apple. Dennis passed away along with Steve Jobs; sadly, society had its memorial for the pupil and not for the mentor. Without UNIX/C, no Apple would have ever existed.
This is a legendary video, because the legends of Bell Labs - Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson and Brian Kernighan featuring in this video... Again, everyone featuring in this video are legends... But, these three are my favorites...
Wow. I bought the C book written by Dennis Ritchie and Kernighan and never knew who Kernighan was until now. What an absolute legend. These guys literally paved the way for the future. It's wild watching this video and seeing how far things have come but the concepts he mentions are very interesting. He says "make little programs that can be combined to create a very complex program." basically the concept of functions in Python I guess but as im teaching myself c right now I think i really needed to hear that
Such clear minds and reasoning: even after UNIX have become commercial, it kept the genes of its academic roots and great initial principles that are still with us: be simple and focus on single purpose.
Around 1983 or so my family got a TI-99-4a. A friend of Dad's also had one with the speech synthesizer attachment. It would play the video game Parsec which would say "Great Shot, Pilot!" (more like great scott, pilot!) after surviving another round. I think I read somewhere that it used the same chip as a "Speak n Spell".
Did computer programming in college back in 1993-96 - We used Vax terminals with unix on them. The college had Windows PC also but most of our programming was done on the Vax
It's kind of awesome seeing the progenitors of so much of the software I use on a daily basis at such a young age. I think Kernighan may be revealing a bit of the psychology that separates *nix users from Win/DOS users too, in that his goto for analyzing the words in a sentence was to lowercase everything. If you've read any of the example code that Microsoft has ever provided, you might notice that their goto is often to uppercase words. Maybe I'm reading too much into that, but it's just a weird quirk I've noticed over the years.
That's because Unix is generally case sensitive, and DOS/Windows is generally not. We tend not to use capital letters in Unix because then you have to also remember what is caps and what is not. Just make it all lowercase and you don't have to remember. In Windows, it doesn't matter.
@@stargazer7644 Partially true, but wouldn't explain why a majority of Microsoft programmers like to uppercase strings to perform comparisons. And we've got upper and lower casing available to us on both platforms via C's standard library.
What were applications back then are literally just functions today, and functions are being used today to built tomorrow’s applications. What a journey so far
11:07 It's kind of funny that the analogy for file systems being like files in a filing cabinet is now something that people in the year 2025 can use to understand how filing cabinets were organized. Total flip.
Not everyone grew up with a filing cabinet but one thing that you can do with a filing cabinet is label the file names with colour. To this day this is still not a feature of any major OS unless you’re in a terminal environment. If you’ve ever looked at a wall of files trying to find a certain configuration file that are among other file types with the same file icon then you might understand what I mean. Just want the option in the rename scheme for human legibility.
@@daniellapain1576 Um, what? 😅 Various Apple operating systems have had filesystems with eight flag-bits for assigning colors to Hierarchical File System (HFS) files and folders since the early 1990s or earlier ( HFS itself was introduced in 1985) and numerous Linux file managers (filesystem explorers) such as Thunar, have centralized databases for tagging colors onto files and folders even if the underlying filesystems (such as Ext4) don't directly support it (but with the extended-attributes feature you can tag a file with anything it's just a question of how the programs you use to view them, handle that metadata)....oh, sorry did you mean you wanted it in a console application? I wrote all that before realizing you might. 😅 Yeah it's been kind of a GUI thing.
@@YadraVoat I mean when you hit rename you do not get the option to customize text color on gui file system. Maybe used to be a feature but I haven’t seen it for modern systems.
Thank you for this video. I am taking a Linux Course and IT software course to learn these skills to be in IT. Absolutely loved the history of this video, and helped me to understand many concepts which I had not before such as the entire purpose of Unix being created. It's incredible to see the progress of software and OS's today. My favorite part was the quote that if they kept doing telephone switching by hand, they would need every person in America to be a telephone switcher.
Such gifted and resourceful yet humble and sympathetic guys! They probably lived good lives, but imagine they had been born a couple of decades later. They would've been SHOWERED with money.
Not really, Dennis Ritchie died alone, still working at bell labs. Very humble and low key. Never been married and no kids. He died around same time Steve Jobs did and everyone praised Jobs when Unix made apples success possible.
I was 10 years old when this video was released. At 20 years old I was was a freshman at a university working as a consultant to the 4th year CS graduate students teaching them how to use SunOS/Solaris on sparc lunchboxes.
is that bill moyers narrating this? sure sound s like him..... for me its memory lane as I knew some of the developers of unix. met them back in the 1970s as I was getting into computing.... 47 years later and 1 retirement (back in 2002, working on my second now) behind me, I'm still in love with the industry.....
Oh neat, John R. Mashey is in this video. I remember reading about him as a lead architect of the MIPS processor line. I didn't know he was part of Bell Labs as well. Bell Labs has had some very important people in its ranks over the years.
It is good to know the basics..but that tech is changing all the time. The are not going to be coding in assembly or machine language. Never bad to learn but it isn't something they will be using unless architecting new hardware...and tbh, GPU probably taking over.
Seeing this makes me think about many of today's "youths" who scoff that us old folks saying we no nothing of computers. I wonder how many of today's "computer geeks", (other than the Linux ones who are terminal savvy), would just sit and stare wondering what do I do. The last bit about checking grammar syntax reminds me of programs that were add on to many word processors.
To be fair, in this time period, the vast majority of people had never even seen a computer in person yet. When young people talk about older folks not being technologically literate, they are usually talking about their normie parents or grandparents, not the ubernerds who worked on these systems.
@@SomeDudeInBaltimore That might have been true in the past. I'm over 70 and was in my 20's when I got my first computer. People 50 years old grew out diapers when a lot of people had computers. And back then, while a lot of games were available most who had them actually used them for stuff like word processing.
dude this is awesome, as a newer linux user after using windows for yrs just randomly saw this on my home feed on yt, and this is amazing now i understand where cat grep and | came from. anyone else think we need to bring back the information at the end of this video where it shows you what your writing grade level is?? i think thats information that we need in 2025, showing the real incompetance of people. and there grade level, but we all know corporate america wouldn't do this cause it would just prove the education system is trash.
@2:47 oh, how the role of OSes has changed. Now, the OS is to enforce the proprietary formats, platforms and APIs of the maker, and to prevent as many programs from running as possible.
That's being a little harsh. APIs are way better than a barebones "kernel" (really just firmware), BASIC and/or a disk "operating system", and lots of very limited programs with redundant code. Unix created great standards and almost beat getting preemptive multitasking to the desktop before Windows NT. MS reimplemented a subset of Unix standards poorly but created some other ones even dedicated Linux people use. The thing to do is keep Unix/Linux open so that users have a choice.
@@chickenspaceprogramThey also had volumes of print manuals filling shelves in their IT libraries for when you needed a reference but weren’t paying for CPU time. Shared computing systems at this time were still a scarce resource. You didn’t want to spend your minutes reading the man pages if you didn’t need to.
Line not in book. Most of the iconic lines in that film are in the book, but not iconic ("welcome to Jurassic Park") or said by the same characters ("deplorable excess of personality").
A note on the file system analogy, (my opinion). It is very important to take it a step further and acknowledge that the words and characters are used to represent concepts and ideas (past, present or future). That might seem unnecessary or taking it a step too far, but it’s my view that if that part is left implied that is the point where tech becomes alienating to those who don’t appreciate the craft for what it is and it’s usefulness. That seems to be an overlooked point of synthesis between real and digital. Without explicitly stating why the file cabinet and documents exist in the first place and why it is being converted to digital a lot of substance is left obscured. Certain things cannot be left unsaid, like a parent talking to a child. It is incomplete to assume the purpose of something is immediately realized. Edit: 11:15
@ that’s what I’m saying, not putting in the effort to go from 95% to 100% is a dangerous game. Doesn’t seem like a big deal at first but within a few generations things become wildly off-axis.
@@nandi123 Google it. ..probably better "k&r wiki(pedia)" and figure out what fits this video's topic. Then Google for "k&r pdf" or "k&r c pdf" and download one from some non-shady website, such as a known University. First one I see in the Google search right now is from UCSD.
Yes, Unix -> Plan 9 OS -> Linux. Unix started as hack so Thompson could play a game "space travel" on a PDP-7...Plan 9 OS was the *fully intentional* follow-up OS. MS-DOS was a low-quality copy of Killdall's CP/M (likely only adopted by IBM because Mary Gates knew the IBM Chairman), and Windows was a lower-quality copy of Kildall's GEM.
Same. I clicked on it expecting some over-exaggerated and funny explanations of why UNIX is better than Linux. Instead, I actually learned some things.
It's 2024 and this video is still useful and entertaining.
Should be shown in schools!
Funny, I thought it was painful & cringy while useful
I wonder if those windows of the top floor, shown in the beginning, still shine at night. I would do it sometimes in the memory of K&R
@@esraeloh8681 i'll take that aesthetic over what we have today
nothing new in computer science history but yeah,it's still a reminder to newbies script kiddies that how great those programmers really were.
The best intro to Unix I’ve ever come across. The fact this is presented in its historical context makes it so much better.
I pass this building everyday and had no idea unix was created there. What a legendary place
You are talking about Murray Hill, New Jersey, Bell Laboratory? Right Brother?.
Pipes one of the most useful concepts from Unix. I started with BSD 4.2 in 1983.
Really? Pipes were only introduced to UNIX in 1983? Other operating systems had them built-in around that time. The Sinclair QL's QDOS, which was developed in 1983 and released on January 12, 1984, had pipes built into its kernel and that was a small microkernel OS. I would have thought pipes were integral way before that, so that's quite surprising.
@@8BitRetroJournal Pipes were introduced to UNIX back in 1973, he's just saying his introduction to UNIX was via the Berkeley Software Distribution, which helped popularise UNIX outside AT&T and evolved into the FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD operating systems (among others!) today. Fun fact: the BSD daemon logo commonly known as "Beastie" originates in a cartoon drawn by Phil Foglio in 1976 of daemons clambering over pipework plumbed up around a PDP-11, with a tap from the pipes dripping into a bucket labelled "NULL". The Dartmouth Time-Sharing System had a similar concept called "communication files" back in the 1960s.
@@8BitRetroJournal He said "I started", not "it started". He was talking about when he started using BSD, not when Unix got pipes
@@mrj505 Oh, my bad. Thanks for the clarification. I read the "I" as "It" accidentally and it didn't make much sense. It was neat seeing the demo the one gent gave and he wasn't using pipes just routing, so I wonder when the | operator was introduced.
Ah, BSD. I ported the BSD TCP/IP stack from Big Endian to Little Endian.
Intro music is "New Dawn" by Francis Monkman if anyone is interested
These guys paved the path for all the personal computing that came later, including Apple. Dennis passed away along with Steve Jobs; sadly, society had its memorial for the pupil and not for the mentor. Without UNIX/C, no Apple would have ever existed.
I like how they “Piped” all the different people in different departments together to explain how the system works, and to tell the story.
This priceless material !!!! Thanks for uploading....
This is a legendary video, because the legends of Bell Labs - Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson and Brian Kernighan featuring in this video... Again, everyone featuring in this video are legends... But, these three are my favorites...
This video is gold. Thanks for sharing.
"Unix.. is not likely to be in the dictionary, ever".
Ah, bro you're too modest.
🤣
its not in merriam webster 😞
At least, it's found in Jurassic Park and Tron as a reference.
@@StEvUgnInwhen you say in TRON as a reference, was it the name or the UNIX-Like OS that was called SolarOS or the actual name UNIX?
@@prestonferry Solaris and BSD both belong to the family of UNIX systems. GNU and Minix are just inspired by the architecture of UNIX.
Wow. I bought the C book written by Dennis Ritchie and Kernighan and never knew who Kernighan was until now. What an absolute legend. These guys literally paved the way for the future. It's wild watching this video and seeing how far things have come but the concepts he mentions are very interesting. He says "make little programs that can be combined to create a very complex program." basically the concept of functions in Python I guess but as im teaching myself c right now I think i really needed to hear that
It’s amazing how much of it is still relevant!
It's more similar to npm node modules in nodejs than functions in python....
Same idea as microservises that has everybody crazy.
It's really more about shell scripts.
most software is or should be made of small programs
Such clear minds and reasoning: even after UNIX have become commercial, it kept the genes of its academic roots and great initial principles that are still with us: be simple and focus on single purpose.
Linux now is incredibly bloated and does billions of things. I still use it.
@@ristokolttonen9208 what? Linux or UNIX?
How do you even use a pure form of UNIX today?
My grandmother is in this video! Sadly, in 1999 her body was discovered in the branches of an apple tree. Still, this brings back great memories.
What do you mean "discovered in the branches of an apple tree"? I have questions.
@@Remigrator Hanging, I suppose...
Do you mean the woman at 11:20?
The text-to-speech part was a surprise to me.
16:20 that sip of coffee
Around 1983 or so my family got a TI-99-4a. A friend of Dad's also had one with the speech synthesizer attachment. It would play the video game Parsec which would say "Great Shot, Pilot!" (more like great scott, pilot!) after surviving another round. I think I read somewhere that it used the same chip as a "Speak n Spell".
@@bigp3t3_cpt This is the part where I paused and had to look at the comments. 😂
I mean, we had text-to-speech programs on the C64, and that was in 1982 as well. You could make it say anything you want.
Amazing CS history lesson. So interesting to see how much the things have changed, and how much the things are actually pretty much the same.
We are just standing on the shoulders of these giants. Thanks for sharing this video.
Beautiful video ! We have come far and for anyone to understand how this all started, this is a great video
Did computer programming in college back in 1993-96 - We used Vax terminals with unix on them. The college had Windows PC also but most of our programming was done on the Vax
Lorinda Cherry sipping coffee while the system 'spoke' that long number is comedy gold. LOL.
RIP Maam.
Came here to say that
Peak bearded UNIX. What's wild today is those cabinet sized hard drives were high technology at the time of filming.
Post-hippy, but they started their own subculture.
It's kind of awesome seeing the progenitors of so much of the software I use on a daily basis at such a young age. I think Kernighan may be revealing a bit of the psychology that separates *nix users from Win/DOS users too, in that his goto for analyzing the words in a sentence was to lowercase everything. If you've read any of the example code that Microsoft has ever provided, you might notice that their goto is often to uppercase words. Maybe I'm reading too much into that, but it's just a weird quirk I've noticed over the years.
good catch
Yeah, How Many Times Have I Typed, dir/a/l/ogn/p Lowercase Is Easier To Read. Thank You. (Like #6 - Reply #2)
That's because Unix is generally case sensitive, and DOS/Windows is generally not. We tend not to use capital letters in Unix because then you have to also remember what is caps and what is not. Just make it all lowercase and you don't have to remember. In Windows, it doesn't matter.
@@stargazer7644 Partially true, but wouldn't explain why a majority of Microsoft programmers like to uppercase strings to perform comparisons. And we've got upper and lower casing available to us on both platforms via C's standard library.
Maybe it's because a lower case "L" can look like the number "1" in some fonts, and other such things?
Just wow! I am SO HAPPY this video came across my feed!!
thanks for being here!
What were applications back then are literally just functions today, and functions are being used today to built tomorrow’s applications. What a journey so far
It's so crazy that computers as slow and limited as those things were still capable of doing that full AI render of Jodie Foster toward the end
Learning C, back in 2000, dramatically changed my life. Its all thanks to these pioneers at Bell Labs. Thanks for sharing!
There were some particularly book(s) did you use back then?
@@JosephEdicoes Yes, it was a SAMS book called "Teach yourself C in 21 Days". The Authors are Peter Aitken and Bradley L. Jones.
When I hear Make America Great Again, this is what comes to my mind.
Yazz! I don’t necessarily think everyone has that particular idea, though.
I definitely agree. This was the golden age of computing.
Amazing how far we’ve come!
What an amazing video!
11:07 It's kind of funny that the analogy for file systems being like files in a filing cabinet is now something that people in the year 2025 can use to understand how filing cabinets were organized. Total flip.
And yet, it's a difficult concept, apparently. I'm still loosing my hair over it, explaining it to users in our company.
Not everyone grew up with a filing cabinet but one thing that you can do with a filing cabinet is label the file names with colour. To this day this is still not a feature of any major OS unless you’re in a terminal environment. If you’ve ever looked at a wall of files trying to find a certain configuration file that are among other file types with the same file icon then you might understand what I mean. Just want the option in the rename scheme for human legibility.
@@daniellapain1576 Um, what? 😅 Various Apple operating systems have had filesystems with eight flag-bits for assigning colors to Hierarchical File System (HFS) files and folders since the early 1990s or earlier ( HFS itself was introduced in 1985) and numerous Linux file managers (filesystem explorers) such as Thunar, have centralized databases for tagging colors onto files and folders even if the underlying filesystems (such as Ext4) don't directly support it (but with the extended-attributes feature you can tag a file with anything it's just a question of how the programs you use to view them, handle that metadata)....oh, sorry did you mean you wanted it in a console application? I wrote all that before realizing you might. 😅 Yeah it's been kind of a GUI thing.
@@YadraVoat I mean when you hit rename you do not get the option to customize text color on gui file system. Maybe used to be a feature but I haven’t seen it for modern systems.
lol @ the lady drinking her coffee while the computer finishes saying the number. classic.
I didn't know that Dennis Ritchie was so eloquent and well-spoken.
amazing, thank you for sharing
Thank you for this video. I am taking a Linux Course and IT software course to learn these skills to be in IT. Absolutely loved the history of this video, and helped me to understand many concepts which I had not before such as the entire purpose of Unix being created. It's incredible to see the progress of software and OS's today. My favorite part was the quote that if they kept doing telephone switching by hand, they would need every person in America to be a telephone switcher.
Thanks for watching!!
Why are you thanking the uploader?
The uploader merely copied this content (presumably without permission) from the AT&T Tech Channel.
16:05 The robotic voice in the background while the presenter sips her coffee killed me for some reason, lol
we are still using these commands, it's a tremendous work they did at this time. Looking forward for decennies, genius people - thanks Bell labs !!
The dc (desk calculator) program, which was shown, is on my Linux to this day, but I haven't used it ever.
In 2024, "UNIX" is indeed in most dictionaries.
Such gifted and resourceful yet humble and sympathetic guys!
They probably lived good lives, but imagine they had been born a couple of decades later.
They would've been SHOWERED with money.
Not really, Dennis Ritchie died alone, still working at bell labs. Very humble and low key. Never been married and no kids. He died around same time Steve Jobs did and everyone praised Jobs when Unix made apples success possible.
40 years later the same idea of pipelines but with AI. Now the AI agents in pipelines bring the next tech revolution.
16:12 "that will take some time" sips the drink.
so good
Very cool comparing the archive footage of Brian Kernigan with the recent interviews with him that are posted on the Computerphile channel.
Wow that's a great archival content...
I was 10 years old when this video was released. At 20 years old I was was a freshman at a university working as a consultant to the 4th year CS graduate students teaching them how to use SunOS/Solaris on sparc lunchboxes.
I used SunOS in college too! Feels like the good old days!
I enjoyed this video very much.
Thanks for watching!
is that bill moyers narrating this? sure sound s like him..... for me its memory lane as I knew some of the developers of unix. met them back in the 1970s as I was getting into computing.... 47 years later and 1 retirement (back in 2002, working on my second now) behind me, I'm still in love with the industry.....
Wow .. Kernigan and Richie in the flesh .. heroes .. and the rest
I just love how these great software engineers/gurus look like deer caught in the headlights staring at the camera 😄, they were human after all.
Wow. So much in this video is taken for granted now. Especially by programmers.
How can I be like these guys! Absolute legends!
Glasses and sweaters.
@@FhargaZ And beards.
Learn Rust and write Linux software. 👌
Unix is definitely in the dictionary now!
Back then, few could afford a minicomputer.
@@andrewlankford9634 That's true. The best my family could do, was a TRS-80.
Epic. Thanks for this
My god, I love that computer voice. I would make it a super-villain in my movie, except ... he would actually only do good! A misunderstood hero!
10:27 he just described agile. He was so ahead of his time!
Oh neat, John R. Mashey is in this video. I remember reading about him as a lead architect of the MIPS processor line. I didn't know he was part of Bell Labs as well. Bell Labs has had some very important people in its ranks over the years.
Still a gem of a video.
Through constant abstraction, it is increasingly difficult for CS majors to escape their comfort zone to learn how the computer work.
It is good to know the basics..but that tech is changing all the time. The are not going to be coding in assembly or machine language. Never bad to learn but it isn't something they will be using unless architecting new hardware...and tbh, GPU probably taking over.
Those folks IQ were off the charts, but yet they couldn't tell you what a spark plug was lol
The future was in 1982
We take for granted what AI can do these days and we forget the history of computing that lead to it
Unix is now in the Cambridge English Dictionary
Seeing this makes me think about many of today's "youths" who scoff that us old folks saying we no nothing of computers. I wonder how many of today's "computer geeks", (other than the Linux ones who are terminal savvy), would just sit and stare wondering what do I do.
The last bit about checking grammar syntax reminds me of programs that were add on to many word processors.
To be fair, in this time period, the vast majority of people had never even seen a computer in person yet. When young people talk about older folks not being technologically literate, they are usually talking about their normie parents or grandparents, not the ubernerds who worked on these systems.
@@SomeDudeInBaltimore That might have been true in the past. I'm over 70 and was in my 20's when I got my first computer. People 50 years old grew out diapers when a lot of people had computers. And back then, while a lot of games were available most who had them actually used them for stuff like word processing.
the time when Unix makes computers easy to use
I wouldn't have imagined Ritchie to be so well-combed back then.
dude this is awesome, as a newer linux user after using windows for yrs just randomly saw this on my home feed on yt, and this is amazing now i understand where cat grep and | came from.
anyone else think we need to bring back the information at the end of this video where it shows you what your writing grade level is?? i think thats information that we need in 2025, showing the real incompetance of people. and there grade level, but we all know corporate america wouldn't do this cause it would just prove the education system is trash.
Thanks for watching!
Listening about pipelines in 1982!
Nice video!
I started my UNIX/C journey in 1983
Same here. I started with UNIX version 6 on a PDP-11.
Very cool. I wish I had started using unix earlier.
@2:47 oh, how the role of OSes has changed. Now, the OS is to enforce the proprietary formats, platforms and APIs of the maker, and to prevent as many programs from running as possible.
So true!! We need to go back!!
That's being a little harsh. APIs are way better than a barebones "kernel" (really just firmware), BASIC and/or a disk "operating system", and lots of very limited programs with redundant code. Unix created great standards and almost beat getting preemptive multitasking to the desktop before Windows NT. MS reimplemented a subset of Unix standards poorly but created some other ones even dedicated Linux people use. The thing to do is keep Unix/Linux open so that users have a choice.
this is actually beautiful. It is truly amazing see where we are coming from. Now we just code in python and call it a day.
Imagine no Google or ChatGPT to look up commands too!
@@williamedwardhahn i mean, they did at least have manpages, so it wasn't so hard
@@chickenspaceprogramThey also had volumes of print manuals filling shelves in their IT libraries for when you needed a reference but weren’t paying for CPU time. Shared computing systems at this time were still a scarce resource. You didn’t want to spend your minutes reading the man pages if you didn’t need to.
The old and super powerful Unix 😊
This video should just humble everyone who thinks creating educational content is somehow a recent invention.
It's a Unix system. I know this.
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❤
Line not in book. Most of the iconic lines in that film are in the book, but not iconic ("welcome to Jurassic Park") or said by the same characters ("deplorable excess of personality").
It's an interactive cd-rom!!
@ Actually all of the computer stuff in the book reads like a non-computer person's idea of what code looks like
A note on the file system analogy, (my opinion). It is very important to take it a step further and acknowledge that the words and characters are used to represent concepts and ideas (past, present or future).
That might seem unnecessary or taking it a step too far, but it’s my view that if that part is left implied that is the point where tech becomes alienating to those who don’t appreciate the craft for what it is and it’s usefulness.
That seems to be an overlooked point of synthesis between real and digital. Without explicitly stating why the file cabinet and documents exist in the first place and why it is being converted to digital a lot of substance is left obscured. Certain things cannot be left unsaid, like a parent talking to a child. It is incomplete to assume the purpose of something is immediately realized.
Edit: 11:15
What is the future generation going to think when the original design metaphors are no longer relevant. Filing cabinets are already pretty rare!
@ that’s what I’m saying, not putting in the effort to go from 95% to 100% is a dangerous game. Doesn’t seem like a big deal at first but within a few generations things become wildly off-axis.
@ I think paper, manual and analog systems should be a permanent fixture in education K-12
Good video. What we also learn from it is that excessive use of computers might be bad for your eyesight 😅
These guys look like the lone gunmen from X files
Kernigan and Richie created C too. A programming language. Amazing!
They created C to make developing Unix easier and more portable. So no coincidence here.
Nice vidéo to discover why Unix and Linux are always better than others.
Those were the pioneers
Where are you finding these gems?
At & t tech channel
On the internet
Someone could make a documentary what those peoples’ lives were and are they still around.
this summarizes my university years 🤗
@3:30
Ken Thompson: "on a mini computer"
Dennis Ritchie sitting behind a monitor 5 feet deep
RIP K&R. We might join you at 01 AM 19 Jan 2038
Who are K&R?
@@nandi123
Google it. ..probably better "k&r wiki(pedia)" and figure out what fits this video's topic.
Then Google for "k&r pdf" or "k&r c pdf" and download one from some non-shady website, such as a known University.
First one I see in the Google search right now is from UCSD.
Hahaha.
@@nandi123I think he means Ken and Dennis or Thompson and Ritchie.
@@bjsvec Ken is still alive.
Ah the glorious days of synchronous programming
im only watching this in case i have to get Jurassic park back online
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wow Dennis Ritchie, he co-wrote the original book for Programming in C.
Yep, that's because he actually created the C programming language himself. Legend.
Yes, Unix -> Plan 9 OS -> Linux. Unix started as hack so Thompson could play a game "space travel" on a PDP-7...Plan 9 OS was the *fully intentional* follow-up OS. MS-DOS was a low-quality copy of Killdall's CP/M (likely only adopted by IBM because Mary Gates knew the IBM Chairman), and Windows was a lower-quality copy of Kildall's GEM.
"You mean you have to use your hands?"
“That’s like a baby’s toy!”
Hahaha I love a good old back to the future reference!
If you take this video as a training course it still works today. That the strength of this OS.
Was that Richard Stallman in red sweater 3:44 ?
Same question here. Does not know he worked at Bell Labs. Even his biographie does not mantioned it.
No
Looks like him, but I don't think he lived in the area.
No
Gen Z watching for the 80s fashions?
Those outfits are fresh!
EARLY 80's fashion. Thompson and co were top Bell Lab employees and didn't have to care how they looked.
03:30 Enter “mini computer” 😂
I was born the year this was made. My daily driver OS is Debian Linux now.
I started with SCO 386 back in the 80s 🙂
But Mr. Kernighan, "unix" is in the dictionary!
"making computers easier to use"
Well that didn't age well
Unreal
I thought this was a "programmers are also human" video because of the thumbnail😅
Same. I clicked on it expecting some over-exaggerated and funny explanations of why UNIX is better than Linux. Instead, I actually learned some things.