Unix History

[lucinos19]

Does any body know what film/tv program/documentary is this? please

[RyeinGoddard]

And now bell labs runs Windows. Congratulations. hahah ... jk..

[onemaconeman]

I love this video

[Doesumama]

These men are the real heroes.

[deadmauVI]

I found about this in October 27

I really didn't care about UNIX until i used it child linux which was A-SOME!

Its sad that only people that have billions and fame are remembered like Steve Jobs.

I like both people but Dennis Ritchie deserves more fame. He made his OS and he was able to see his creation was duplicated by millions and he died happy for his change in the world.

People only cared when that "dennis ritchie' comment was born.

go to wikipedia search Dennis Ricthe look in death/legacey

[1234fuckubitch]

oh boy it feels so good watching this vintage videos

[rorosamy]

did dennis richi hed a famly? kids?

[TobiasTheebe]

Thumbs up for the monitor at 0:37!

[bobdelacruz]

Unix or die

[dyybe1]

everybody was like oh no Steve jobs died i'm cutting my self and when Dennis died there was almost nothing on the news

[ForsakenThirteen]

@dyybe1 That's not ot say Steve's death wasn't tragic. But I agree, Dennis should've been in the news more.

[macnet83]

thank you Dennis!

[Aluriadna]

RIP Ritchie.

[sirenayka]

[user@computer ~]$ su

Password: (types in)

[root@computer user]# iamalpha&omega

What does the kernel code read at line 10356 in draft: (types in)

[welcome Ken Thompson ~]####

[Ugli2006]

RIP, DMR.

printf("Goodbye world!\n");

youtube doesn't allow me to post the whole program.

[SuperJuvent]

Dennis was better than steve jobs!

[MsMichiganian]

@SuperJuvent

We can not compare them.

They were successful in very much different ways.

They were genius in completely different area.

I think Steve Jobs respected and were grateful for Dennis.

RIP.

[umrangsoiscool]

Good bye DMR.......R.I.P

[western885]

he is the real ARCHITECT !

[Blunder1248]

RIP - Thankyou for who you were and your work...

[tofernandes12]

it´s unimaginably n priceless their contribution to the world we live in today!!!! RIP we owe you so much

[Thet3]

RIP

[peloi79]

RIP Master !!

[esamottawa]

Farewell dmr.

[GrumpyOldTroll]

RIP dmr.

[Everincon]

RIP dmr ... society will never fully realize just how much you changed our world for the better.

[acacentrala]

RIP Dennis

[nunoslbbcb11]

R.I.P.

[aarreessppllaann]

printf

[jhalajhala]

RIP Dennis Ritchie... ;_;

[MrChrisfranko]

tis a good history indeed

[Vukobratina]

RIP Dennis! Thanks for all!

[astarothgr]

:( fuck this is sad...

[ToToSe13]

R.I.P

[mikemota]

Descanse en Paz Dennis Ritchie

[Deckard220]

RIP Dennis, thank you very much for your valuable contributions. You'll surely be missed.

[gabrybabelle]

Honour and glory to love Dennis - Dennis Ritchie RIP. You will not be forgotten.

[josivaljr]

RIP Dennis Ritchie

[sathvikmail]

R.I.P. Dennis Ritchie

[iSteeeve]

C--

RIP Dennis

Thanks for C!

[maglight117]

R.I.P Dennis Ritchie, Forever an importance in *nix <3

[nilath84]

R.I.P. Dennis.

[Ilikemustard]

RIP Dennis ;_;

[SantosBeat]

q mmda... q muere steve y todo el mundo se pone a llorar xq su producto era algo comercial...

pero un verdadero grande fallece hoy y apuesto a q no se correra noticia alguna d este gran pilar de la programación y computación ¬¬

[TheTelePlus]

Farewell Dennis. Your work lives on and will continue to do so for quite some time now, your contributions to the field of computer science were downright revolutionary.

[cellsplicer2008]

RIP Dennis Ritchie. You won't be forgotten.

[lton505]

the UNIX OS is old but is still gold. it is used in important places all over the world. if you know it, you can really make money. yes in 2011 and later!

[stevek1993]

1:55 bill gates ?

[roffpoff]

Not flat screens monitors .... i have never seen bigger

[revanux]

UNIX is a pillar of IT and science, it was developed for scientific reasons, that's why it makes sense.

[downformaintenance]

Fellowship.

[deltaray3]

0:50 I swear that guy in the background looks like Richard M. Stallman.

[Monkeymanmoog]

@deltaray3 Yeah he does look like stallman!

[Armanvl10]

that two guys (Thompson & Ritchie) have made revolution in the computer world!

[TheSmerkol]

dont wanna like it couse there are 256 likes...

[leocomerford]

That's Doug McIlroy in the foreground from 0:46 !

[xm4nfedoralinux]

@leocomerford And thats Richard Stallman in the background @ :49

[RausAusKL]

FAKE! Proof: there's a shaved guy!

[Maklolm]

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie - founders of nerdiness

[BeamingSplendor]

i would love to have been part of it.

[LayZounet]

0:36

Am I wrong or he's reading his script directly from the computer ? :D

[yefi2]

Awesome 3D graphics.

[chozar]

Anyone know what terminals are used in this vid?

[JGeiger15]

wow!!! :37

[rossyy94]

Tanks for this Video ! :)

Fuck the Haters and ignorants!

[novirent]

chez novirent on aime unix!

novirent

[eagleoneraptor]

@DynamioPL I think UNIX is father of a lot of things in computer science terms (including Windows). The UNIX creators innovated in a new form to design an Operating System (this should be multitask, multiuser, simple and effective).

They have all my respect :-).

[maglight117]

@popshvt Then don't watch derp.

[popshvt]

who cares about how unix works

i can simply hire people working for me

i don't give a fuck about computers

i just care about money

[jameshanley40]

@popshvt

Gotta start somewhere though. All very well if you started before computers! You are lucky enough to know enough to write a comment.

[shawnmd]

"on a mini computer"..... Cut to the gigantic box... priceless!

[Vincenteloco]

thumbs up great vid

[yogesh4ever]

thanks a lot

[ugurozyilmazel]

thank you!

[konenas]

They are my heroes!

Simplicity is the message they gave to the world.

But Bill is still alive ;-)

[MintythecatIsABeast]

Many thanks.

[Markohoppis]

A lot of explanations in computer science are too abstract, vague, esoteric to understand. Concrete examples help immensely in understanding the concepts.

I can generally understand biology and chemistry better than computer science.

[Tia1ko]

@Markohoppis: Well, it's difficult to apply good concrete examples to abstract math save for homeworks and exercises.

[saqibischip]

i wish i had chance to work with those Geniuses......

[saqibischip]

i love to work on UNIX.........for me its addictive ...lol

[pawntokingspawn]

Good Lord!

ZZTop invented Unix??!!

[Nodle66]

Nice.A great piece of history.These guys invented everything we see now!!!

[fegzzzor]

When a business creats a game today the start where these guys ended, These guys did the hardest work, and a platform for everybody to begin from !!!

[chucknorris687]

The thing that I like about UNIX is that no one person can really hurt it, everyone has there own permissions and is limited to those permissions. : ) it's perfect end of story....

[amotisi8859]

could these guys be anymore streotypical computer nerds? This is the basis of what we're doing now, however.

[GeneticRealityFilms]

XD that be funny to put an Alienware into that old PC case

[MrSuperfuck]

Great Piece of History!

[AlbertaCanada420]

omg how old is this video

[nills99]

Monitorus The huge!

It's comming!

At 0:36

[alphadash0]

om nom nom :-)

[TravvyG]

Haha i want one of those acient things haha hmmm wonder what Windows 7 will use. I don't understand all this stuff but I am capable of learning about it kernal rom etc all those computer terms. I am very capable of being bright in the Technology area cause Technology is one of my interest along with Space and Trains hehe

[EpsilonProcess]

Back in the early 90's I worked at a video production company in NJ called VSL. They did a lot of industrial videos for AT&T and Bell labs, and they had a series on UNIX where they filmed Ken, Dennis, and Brian at BL Murray Hill. They were very well produced, and the feel was similiar to this one. Very cool stuff...wish I had asked for a copy of them before I left.

[56aipc]

Great video...really interesting :)

[wisteela]

Brilliant. Very interesting. Love all the old hardware.

[tosykosyhaha]

0:41 nice monitor.

[samuelzerozero]

mini flat screen!

[Octostatue]

where are these guys now? and why aren't they running the world?

[ggogolis]

But they do! Most of Internet Services run at computers with UNIX-based or UNIX systems like GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and Sun's Solaris

[Tia1ko]

Ken Thompson is currently running the world as a Distinguished Engineer at Google. :-)

[FaulknerProgramming]

cor! Some of the old computers ... there massive!!

[AmericanChopper1981]

By your logic we would all still be using CPM or writing our own programs in machine language and there would be no internet. I still can appreciate playing with archaic equipment, but to turn a blind eye to innovation and new and better ways to do things seems well.... stupid. Name calling or putting down those technological leaps & calling those that use them " digitally uneducated " just seems childish . I'm sure even you have progressed past CPM or MS dos.

[yogesh4ever]

This video is just to show how computer technology started to evolve, and not to turn a blind eye to innovation and new and better ways.

[racl101]

True Original Gangstas!

[chriswyatt]

Definitely, these guys probably programmed in binary, hardcore.

[semicroma]

I think the first version was written with in assembly language, then rewritten in C.

[bulli1979]

even ms had their unix license... xenix

[jrguillett2]

look at that monitor its huge

[monoRhesus]

VERY nice

[donottrust]

great.

[art4med]

I still use one!

Truly, I learned in 1994 that Apple was rewriting their OS from the ground up on a UNIX kernel, I knew they would reign-- eventually! Shoulda bought Apple stock then, but I was a UNIX-head!

[schmidtbag]

mac is still unix based. it vaguely resembles the same folder heirarchy but it also still uses the terminal.

yay for unix, thanks to that linux and mac will always be safe and stable to use

[phsoftnet]

What is the documentary's name?

[krpalospo]

UNIX is the only TRUE, thanks dennis and ritche your are genius, without yours never we know the really true.

[marshalauth]

I think that book below her monitor is a UNIX command book..... just a guess....

[letifer669]

Just great, thank you.

[yogesh4ever]

mention not dear.

[yogesh4ever]

mention not dear.

[orgthingy]

where did you get this from?

[ascheepe]

It's great to see this, thanks!

[andreskrey]

I want one of that microwave sized computers

[orgthingy]

yea, there were MANY operating systens before and after UNIX but you may not know because they sucked and failed =P

[3l337mind]

UNIX rocks!!! If those pigs from Bell Labs and AT&T would give the code free this would be a better place today(No Microsoft No Apple) But they didn't. Any ways thanx to Richard Stallman we have GNU/Linux today(unix-like operating system).

[orgthingy]

richard stallman "started" FSF which started GNU... and COMMUNITY did the rest... and Linus T. started Linux... so, thank the community as well :P

[stemcellfilms]

that kind of neomarxist naivete about community is absurd... Believe in mankind all you want to.. that doesn't change the fact that the majority of real coding work (not just your gui themes) are and always have been written by babylonian freemasons...

[CatsAndGoodCoffee]

Although sort, interesting early days of Unix video.

Thanks.

[ConanTL]

Dennis Ritchie is awesome. To be both the (co)father of Unix and C, both of which have had a huge impact on computing. Fuck Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, this is the man.

[someman7]

"We're trying to make computing as simple as possible" says Ken, the Unix author. LOL

[ybumbu]

why LOL ?? the complexity from UNIX became after x-window and networking was added, because who added these didn't understand unix file philosophy. If u don't believe take a look at Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno, operating systems rewritten with respect to original UNIX philosophies, network and graphics, and you there you will see some examples of computing made as "simple as possible"

[someman7]

Hehe. How about this one:

"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity." Dennis Ritchie (the "other" Unix author)

Those successors of Unix do sound interesting tho. I should look into them.

[fmgoss]

genius: Language C + UNIX

UNIX is the father of all of the systems

[nchristy08]

Except Windows, because Microsoft likes to ignore all standards.

[DynamioPL]

@fmgoss But UNIX isn't father of CP/M, DOS, Windows.

[eMGeeGFX]

@DynamioPL, neither of OpenVMS. UNIX and derivatives are good, but they're not the ‘father of all’ or whatever (what some seem to imply).

[merkur32123]

@fmgoss NO! He is the father of Linux, BSD and MacOS, But not Windows. I hate Windows!

[celebpaws]

what is the name of this documentary? I need to track it down!

[seutubinho]

I also need so much the name of this documentary, the producers, or any other clue to search a higher resolution to download and show to my students!

[disemq]

does anybody know the name ?

[MrOmniscient]

Interesting, but I have no idea how this was related with the paris hilton "I'm an asshole" video...

Unfortunately its been superceded right?

[arinlares]

Dennis Ritchie -> Lionel Richie-> Nicole Richie, who is friends with whom? (it takes a stretch of the imagination)

[kurizzos]

Yup, the infancy of string based queries in search engines. (Its ambiguity drives me nuts sometimes too.)

But this vid is interesting: Written in old C OOP?

So the system must've been great back then.

Plus, how did everyone manage not to go blind with those monochrome CRT dummy screens?

Wow...

Old school IT pioneers get my respect.

[kurizzos]

(By the way everyone, the search engine comment was a reply to MrOmniscient)

[seutubinho]

Oh my god, I need this documentary complete! Where can I obtain that?

[doseryder]

Can you please upload the rest of this documentary?

[yogesh4ever]

sorry dear,

I have only this much

[marcap53]

Da vedere ! I padri di UNIX spiegano direttamente le scelte iniziali

[yogesh4ever]

can u explain it in English?

[eafkuor]

You can translate it like "A must see. UNIX creators explaining their choices (decisions)"

[media90Cj]

the "fathers " of Unix!

Cooool!

[mydogisbrian]

Thats what I did when I was going to school for English, but for my science prereqs =D