Shared Destiny: 40 Years of Unix, 40 Years of VM, and How They Came Together

As UNIX was being born at Bell Labs, the VM operating system was being born at IBM. Though mainframe Linux is a comparatively recent phenomenon, VM and UNIX share common roots that are subtle but deep, with a rich heritage of open source code, community involvement, and developer passion. Scott Courtney and David Boyes explore the history of VM that led it to be such a fine platform for Linux, and how UNIX and UNIX tools evolved in the mainframe hardware environment in the decades before Linux.

Talk by David Boyes and Scott Courtney of Sine Nomine Associates.

The video starts about 10 minutes into the talk, when the history of Multics (ca. 1964) is being discussed.

Ohio LinuxFest 2009
http://www.ohiolinux.org/talks.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• unix
• vm
• bell labs
• ibm
• linux
• open source
• gnu
• multics
• computer
• history
• sine nomine
• doug
• douglas
• mcilroy
• peter salus