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.)

@stachowi

4 жыл бұрын

Wow, I can’t image how much you’ve seen over your lifetime

@blackneos940

4 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**

@shadyoakum9978

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your time, the information is priceless. Much appreciated.

@dakarikaysen1898

2 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.

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.

Video starts at 3:44

@larisfan1416

5 жыл бұрын

Why are you so good?

@rkmr41

5 жыл бұрын

@@larisfan1416 it makes me happy :-)

@MayorAwesome

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I was worried there was something wrong with my audio until I scrolled down to the top comment. Upboat.

@theskett

5 жыл бұрын

@@MayorAwesome I'm enjoying your upvote => upboat interpretation, and intend to use it at every opportunity in future (y) :-)

@JackWagonOne

5 жыл бұрын

Real MVP right here.

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.

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.

@CreachterZ

4 ай бұрын

Did I write this?

RK05s made a beautiful tinkling noise when seeking.

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.)

@GeorgNikodym

5 жыл бұрын

We also had a club called Unix Unanimous where the "gospel" was spread to other interested geeks like myself. Good times.

@parrotraiser6541

5 жыл бұрын

It's still around; meeting tonight at Ry High (Ryerson U)

@GeorgNikodym

5 жыл бұрын

@@parrotraiser6541 only problem is that I moved to YUL

@DVRC

4 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!

Awesome video, makes me feel old though!!

Excellent presentation - thx!

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.

We had silver stickers to cover mistakes on punch cards. Sometimes they fell off

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.

What a legendary age.

So Plan 9 history next time?

@nelinearni

5 жыл бұрын

join the 9fans mailing list

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.

That was really enjoyable!!

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.hughredelmeier1960

2 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.

This is the Blit demo video to which he refers around the 45min mark: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l6GclJSghJjLac4.html

@agranero6

7 ай бұрын

Thanks. I was looking for it.

Why was there seating space made around old mainframe computers?

Awesome

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.

It's good to see the IBM computers there :)

i would absolutely love a talk siilar to this but about plan9

51:44 for Crabs

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.

I don't know what to say after watching this.

I could not find the picture of the Balu chip dye anywhere.

Audio starts at kzread.info/dash/bejne/kWaCq5itYtXFeNY.html

16:34 - Wait, so man pages used to be physical?

@tibfulv

4 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.

3:43 Starts

EPFL Wohoo!

👏🏽👏🏽

Really curious about the 4 dislikes

@meteor8076

5 жыл бұрын

1 is bill gates ?

"what?"

Why did Rob graduate as a Gumby (20:36)?

@d.hughredelmeier1960

2 жыл бұрын

He was a very big Monty Python fan then. I don't know about now.

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.hughredelmeier1960

2 жыл бұрын

That was surely a model.

@jub8891

2 жыл бұрын

@@d.hughredelmeier1960 may be but it wasnt obligatory sexist by her being there 🤗

@nIrUbU01

2 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.

Can some one create translation for this video?

@andreyrose

5 жыл бұрын

@Asindu D. Willfed russian

@nogum100

5 жыл бұрын

@Asindu D. Willfed fortran

@thomasfolbrecht3862

5 жыл бұрын

Turn on Closed Captions , go to settings, Subtitles/CC, Auto Translation >> Russian

Oh come on! I used EDT on RSTS/E on a PDP-11/73 and it kicked vi's ass... let alone ed.

@d.hughredelmeier1960

2 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.

When does the history of UNIX start? This is more a rambling life's history. Change the title.

What is up beta boys

8:08 - sexist ? People are ridiculous

Sweet Jesus I hate that laughing when he's not saying anything funny! Corporation jerks!

8:08? what in the earth is sexist about in this picture? are you nuts?

Sexist image? Goodbye.

@nomms

9 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.