The history of Unix as seen through the eyes of Rob Pike. You will get an insider's view of the development of some of the key pieces of the modern computing world.
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@john29335 жыл бұрын
I started working on the Multics project in 1967 - a joint project with MIT, GE, and Bell Labs. Doug McIlroy and Joe Ossana, others were part of the Bell Labs contingent. When Bell Labs dropped out of the project - several years later - the Bell Labs team started creating Unix - sometimes amusingly called castrated Multics. (When I was an MIT freshman in 1956-57 Doug McIlroy was my math instructor.)
@stachowi4 жыл бұрын
Wow, I can’t image how much you’ve seen over your lifetime
@blackneos9404 жыл бұрын
Thank you. :) Thanks to you, we have things like OpenBSD, Linux, and Solaris, and of course, macOS. :D You are a legend among legends, AND, to top it off, you even have a cool beard! :) Again, thank you... :) **Bow**
@shadyoakum99783 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your time, the information is priceless. Much appreciated.
@dakarikaysen18983 жыл бұрын
Instablaster.
@joeturner7959 Жыл бұрын
This video was great. There is another video of Unix 50 w/ Doug McIllroy which is a great watch. Thank you for your work on Unix - a lot of brilliant minds with brilliant ideas and contributions.
@MultiPetercool3 жыл бұрын
My Dad worked at Murray Hill. Walter Brown was his director. Walter sponsored a Boy Scout Explorer Post that met at 7:30PM every Monday night. Many local high school students like my friends and I got to play with Unix and C programming. A guy named Marty Shannon was our “Den Mother”. About that time Hal Alles built his digital synthesizer. I was lucky to have been there.
@rkmr415 жыл бұрын
Video starts at 3:44
@larisfan14165 жыл бұрын
Why are you so good?
@rkmr415 жыл бұрын
@@larisfan1416 it makes me happy :-)
@MayorAwesome5 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I was worried there was something wrong with my audio until I scrolled down to the top comment. Upboat.
@theskett5 жыл бұрын
@@MayorAwesome I'm enjoying your upvote => upboat interpretation, and intend to use it at every opportunity in future (y) :-)
@JackWagonOne5 жыл бұрын
Real MVP right here.
@itsmekenlai5 жыл бұрын
That demo of the overlapping windows with bouncing ball animation is still very cool today considering the limited processing and the amount of work needed to get it to work. I can only imagine the number of jaws dropped at that time.
@nosuchtim Жыл бұрын
It really was a seminal moment; he's not overstating the reception in saying it was rapturous. As he says, "It's hard to express how cool that was, but I can remember." There hasn't been such a moment, for me, since, but there might be another such moment when (if I'm still alive) AR hardware becomes transparent enough to evolve us away from having physical screens and keyboards.
@guillermolinares48184 жыл бұрын
I got a Commodore 64 when I was 15 back in the 80's and got hooked on computers ever since. Indeed my life revolves around them and its my livelihood. Bless those guys back then who started it all.
@CreachterZ5 ай бұрын
Did I write this?
@hunta20975 жыл бұрын
Awesome video, makes me feel old though!!
@rohitnair93045 жыл бұрын
This was a delightful talk and brought to light some of the programming practices that we still indulge in for archaic reasons. On a side note, f someone is curiously distracted by the thumbnails at the bottom as me, they are DPs of folks in the hangout call. As you can tell, 2nd one is the video.
@QuasarRedshift5 жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation - thx!
@fburton85 жыл бұрын
RK05s made a beautiful tinkling noise when seeking.
@DAVIDGREGORYKERR5 жыл бұрын
I love AT&T Assembler, When I was doing the Pre-Apprintence Craft Course I had access to a Digital cooperation PDP11 at Trostin Avenue Tech Ballymena.
@parrotraiser65415 жыл бұрын
Toronto's contribution to Unix isn't as well known as it should be. (Brian Kernighan started there, Henry Spencer developed regexes there, Hugh Redelmeier and David Tillbrook were all there too.)
@GeorgNikodym5 жыл бұрын
We also had a club called Unix Unanimous where the "gospel" was spread to other interested geeks like myself. Good times.
@parrotraiser65415 жыл бұрын
It's still around; meeting tonight at Ry High (Ryerson U)
@GeorgNikodym5 жыл бұрын
@@parrotraiser6541 only problem is that I moved to YUL
@DVRC4 жыл бұрын
I wish to know more. Was there a *TSD* system like BSD?
@rustycherkas8229 Жыл бұрын
Henry was something, alright. It's said that he alone had the archivist foresight to store early Usenet traffic that reach utzoo... "Dept of Zoology"... not the most obvious sponsor of CS development that one might consider!
@LiamProven5 жыл бұрын
This is the Blit demo video to which he refers around the 45min mark: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m9OYZZWYuZvJaZ8.html
@agranero69 ай бұрын
Thanks. I was looking for it.
@BajanAlan5 жыл бұрын
We had silver stickers to cover mistakes on punch cards. Sometimes they fell off
@Euryugasaki4 жыл бұрын
What a legendary age.
@CreachterZ5 ай бұрын
Why was there seating space made around old mainframe computers?
@technicalmachine16715 жыл бұрын
So Plan 9 history next time?
@auslegungssache5 жыл бұрын
join the 9fans mailing list
@kateniaallen86705 ай бұрын
That was really enjoyable!!
@movax20h Жыл бұрын
49:00. Mouse from Switzerland. From EPFL spinoff. I just got idea, are they connected to Logitech? And sure enough, Logitech first product was P4 by Dubois Dépraz SA. In 1981. Fascinating story. I didn't know what he did before Plan 9, so it was really cool to hear. Thanks Rob.
@256k_4 ай бұрын
i would absolutely love a talk siilar to this but about plan9
@user-ov5nd1fb7s5 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@seejaybee5 жыл бұрын
Great talk, but have to disagree with Rob's comment that 'RT-11 was a terrible operating system ...', it was a real time OS and for for what it was designed to do was a very capable OS, and ran equipment in universities, hospitals and industries for decades, well past it what might have been it's expected 'Use By' date.
@d.hughredelmeier19602 жыл бұрын
DEC's OSes confused me. Partly because they were clearly less useful than UNIX. If I remember correctly, there was RT-11, maybe DOS-11, RSX-11, RSTS-11. I wrote one program that ran under RT-11 on the GT-44 that Rob used.
@coderoam Жыл бұрын
It's good to see the IBM computers there :)
@rpk55683 жыл бұрын
Correction, at 26:18, not a 11/45, and DECtapes were cool. They could read and write with tape moving in either direction. It had a buffer chip in it that could be emptied or filled to give first in first out, first in last out, etc. And it was fast. Reels were direct drive no capstan.
@zakmcgregor66635 жыл бұрын
Audio starts at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZh-fJmll9jDeKc.html
@thecandyman9308 Жыл бұрын
I don't know what to say after watching this.
@agranero69 ай бұрын
I could not find the picture of the Balu chip dye anywhere.
@DVRC4 жыл бұрын
I have a question: why the CRT of the Blit prototype was grey scale, when the final one was green scale? Anyway, the Blit board prototype in a cardboard box looks cool.
@silaspoulson99354 жыл бұрын
51:44 for Crabs
@JGunlimited5 жыл бұрын
16:34 - Wait, so man pages used to be physical?
@tibfulv4 жыл бұрын
Yep, they were Unix's manual. Thick volumes that actually named the OS. Early Unix is not version 5, 6, or 7 internally.. Instead, it's 5th, 6th, and 7th Edition Unix. So I suspect that actually started version numbering as we know it.
@julfhelsingius5 жыл бұрын
Really curious about the 4 dislikes
@meteor80765 жыл бұрын
1 is bill gates ?
@zadspecial Жыл бұрын
3:43 Starts
@krm84948 ай бұрын
When does the history of UNIX start? This is more a rambling life's history. Change the title.
@ismaelgrahms Жыл бұрын
👏🏽👏🏽
@Kathypeer5 жыл бұрын
EPFL Wohoo!
@fburton85 жыл бұрын
Why did Rob graduate as a Gumby (20:36)?
@d.hughredelmeier19602 жыл бұрын
He was a very big Monty Python fan then. I don't know about now.
@jub88914 жыл бұрын
The woman in the back wasn't "obligatory sexist".. many programmers and operators of that era were actually female.. heck my own mother and most of her friends were mainframe programmers.. otherwise it's still an interesting piece... thanks for sharing!
@d.hughredelmeier19602 жыл бұрын
That was surely a model.
@jub88912 жыл бұрын
@@d.hughredelmeier1960 may be but it wasnt obligatory sexist by her being there 🤗
@nIrUbU012 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that part really made me wonder if there's something wrong with the guy lol. Seems like he is part of the "the entire world is sexist" faction.
@udirt5 жыл бұрын
"what?"
@wrends11 ай бұрын
8:08? what in the earth is sexist about in this picture? are you nuts?
@edgeeffect4 жыл бұрын
Oh come on! I used EDT on RSTS/E on a PDP-11/73 and it kicked vi's ass... let alone ed.
@d.hughredelmeier19602 жыл бұрын
I don't know EDT. A lot of DEC's editors weree based on TECO-like ideas, terrible for a line editor. On the other hand, VI is based on ed, a line editor, which is a terrible base for a screen editor.
@darthmaster69382 жыл бұрын
8:08 - sexist ? People are ridiculous
@andreyrose5 жыл бұрын
Can some one create translation for this video?
@andreyrose5 жыл бұрын
@Asindu D. Willfed russian
@nogum1005 жыл бұрын
@Asindu D. Willfed fortran
@thomasfolbrecht38625 жыл бұрын
Turn on Closed Captions , go to settings, Subtitles/CC, Auto Translation >> Russian
@mrgadget14852 жыл бұрын
Sweet Jesus I hate that laughing when he's not saying anything funny! Corporation jerks!
@oishikchakraborty19672 жыл бұрын
What is up beta boys
@tabnumlock7790 Жыл бұрын
Sexist image? Goodbye.
@nomms11 ай бұрын
Rob Pike wrote a massive portion of Unix and massive chunk of the Unix/BSD core utils that were cloned by GNU and POSIX. He wrote this stuff in the 80s and you use his code every day.