What is Unix and why does it matter? Operating System OS Explained, History, Unix vs Linux, etc.

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  • @Cypeq
    @Cypeq8 ай бұрын

    Great video i still don't know what unix is.

  • @indicgamer2907
    @indicgamer29072 жыл бұрын

    underatted video, deserves more views

  • @TeXplaiNIT

    @TeXplaiNIT

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @LazizbekYusupov92

    @LazizbekYusupov92

    Жыл бұрын

    It definitely does. I was surprised to see so little number of watches! The work is awosme!

  • @TeXplaiNIT
    @TeXplaiNIT2 жыл бұрын

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  • @ozordiprince9405

    @ozordiprince9405

    Жыл бұрын

    It's a very nice detailed video. Great job mate. Keep spreading the good word of Dennis Ritchie

  • @user-wn9xm8jz3r
    @user-wn9xm8jz3r13 күн бұрын

    this is a powerful video anyone can watch it #softwarelegit

  • @microsnail2761
    @microsnail2761 Жыл бұрын

    Just started learning about all this stuff well after college since I am looking to change careers and explore my interest in programming. Really appreciate this video!!

  • @793Rich
    @793Rich Жыл бұрын

    Simple, clear and straight forward!

  • @navrade
    @navrade5 ай бұрын

    Easy-to-understand visuals, clear-cut explanations, a solid overview of the history, and some banger music. High-quality content in my book. Studying for a system-level programming midterm, but will check out your other videos afterward!

  • @johnelectric933
    @johnelectric933 Жыл бұрын

    I know this is old, but if you look at the code in the original DOS, they stole a lot including loadable drivers. There is even a residual variable instance counter as a hook for multi-user.

  • @Adrian-re9fh
    @Adrian-re9fh Жыл бұрын

    Great video, it really resumes very well how we evolved with Unix operating system.

  • @bornsonoran
    @bornsonoran2 жыл бұрын

    Very helpful. thank you.

  • @MrRaynier06
    @MrRaynier06 Жыл бұрын

    Great video, thank you so much!

  • @cynthiavictoria6813
    @cynthiavictoria68133 ай бұрын

    A very wonderful and interesting explanation.

  • @aayuradityasaraswat6400
    @aayuradityasaraswat64008 ай бұрын

    Best unix video i have come across......great visualisation bro...well done

  • @arefehHandmade
    @arefehHandmade2 жыл бұрын

    good explanation

  • @todessehnsucht
    @todessehnsucht Жыл бұрын

    I know that it is an OS but I find it hard to visualize it. Like, OK, it is an operating system, but what about graphics and what not? I mean, what it >>looked

  • @TeXplaiNIT

    @TeXplaiNIT

    Жыл бұрын

    I think Unix eventually got a GUI but back in the early days it was all text-based

  • @tylerdean980

    @tylerdean980

    Жыл бұрын

    Home computers didn’t get a gui until the 80’s really, this is a decade older. Just open a Linux terminal and you have an idea of what it was like. Of course, in the very beginning they weren’t using terminals either, it was punch cards

  • @ChrisWMF

    @ChrisWMF

    Жыл бұрын

    Switches and lights.

  • @edgarbonet1

    @edgarbonet1

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tylerdean980 Unix supported terminals from the very beginning. These were mostly electromechanical teleprinters in the early 70s, as CRT-based “glass ttys” weren't that common back then.

  • @paulk314
    @paulk314 Жыл бұрын

    1:22 Ken Thompson circa 1970: "I'm doing an operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like multics) for PDP-7."

  • @YoungThos
    @YoungThos Жыл бұрын

    Just watched this video on a lightweight RISC Unix machine known as an iPad

  • @Luxxinator
    @Luxxinator2 ай бұрын

    Great video! I‘m reading a book about Linux right now and a part of it is the history of Unix and this video really helped me understand it better. :D

  • @mahatmawisesa9706
    @mahatmawisesa97065 ай бұрын

    very cool explanation! this channel should deserve more subscribers

  • @esra_erimez
    @esra_erimez Жыл бұрын

    RIP: Dennis Ritchie

  • @yue7507
    @yue75072 жыл бұрын

    thank you for this video!

  • @TeXplaiNIT

    @TeXplaiNIT

    2 жыл бұрын

    My pleasure - thanks for watching

  • @AshleyAlmontedeluna
    @AshleyAlmontedeluna Жыл бұрын

    This is a great and informative video I am watching this to learn and understand more about coding and the lures of everything great video man keep the good work

  • @TeXplaiNIT

    @TeXplaiNIT

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the kind words and good luck!

  • @Stopinvadingmyhardware
    @Stopinvadingmyhardware Жыл бұрын

    It’s responsible for half of the phones on the planet, and the grand daddy of the other half.

  • @krkr8863
    @krkr8863 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, from Brooklyn.

  • @pedramfarjoud
    @pedramfarjoud2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot brother

  • @richardbennett4365
    @richardbennett436510 ай бұрын

    Not only is the mach kernel of Nextstep, Openstep, and macOS, obviously, since macOS version 10 and following came from Nextstep, but macOS IS a Unix operating system, and has been such since certified by The Open Group, who owns the Unix trademark, as far back as 2008 or 2011.

  • @Lian-zb5rk
    @Lian-zb5rk8 ай бұрын

    bro this is amazing

  • @Faruox
    @Faruox8 ай бұрын

    Thanks 👍

  • @tho_norlha
    @tho_norlha Жыл бұрын

    Thanks 🙏

  • @compilererror
    @compilererror Жыл бұрын

    That tree is fantastic!

  • @abhiramivenugopal9868
    @abhiramivenugopal9868 Жыл бұрын

    explained it well

  • @GodEmperorSuperStar
    @GodEmperorSuperStar Жыл бұрын

    3:00 Eight Edition UNIX (UNIX v8) is in the wrong place on that tree. Rob Pike wrote that the history of UNIX leaves out Bell Labs research UNIX after version 7 as if it never happened. Did you know that Dennis Ritchie wrote symbolic links for UNIX v8 and his code was added to BSD? Did you know that there was a Datakit based network called XUNET that was contemporaneous with the ARPANET and XUNET connected Bell Labs with the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) where BSD came from?

  • @AquMead
    @AquMead10 ай бұрын

    Unix = C Microsoft Windows = C: Linux = / 👈 slash or solidus symbol, very simple and great! 😎

  • @azrap1054
    @azrap10542 жыл бұрын

    Watching this in 2022, and the clock at 0:27 got me wide eyed

  • @TeXplaiNIT

    @TeXplaiNIT

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes, the way things were when I made this video :P

  • @horcruxsoul2813
    @horcruxsoul28137 ай бұрын

    Thanks, Morty.

  • @amigagr
    @amigagr6 ай бұрын

    AmigaOS (Workbench) is based on Minix too!

  • @richardbennett4365
    @richardbennett436510 ай бұрын

    Any Linux can be Unix if it becomes certified as such by The Open Group. One Linux is Unix. Only one.

  • @rayrai982
    @rayrai9823 ай бұрын

    You eventually explained why whole microsoft windows os crashes once it's file explorer crashes. It's because of dos(disc operating system), microsoft than used msdos(microsoft disk operating system). Whole os orient around file exploration (i mean windows file explorer). While on unix or linux even if you don't have a file explorer like thunar or dolphin your os still works.

  • @NiffirgkcaJ
    @NiffirgkcaJ6 күн бұрын

    WIndows is the only oddball in the world of tech, since it doesn't rely on the philosophies of UNIX.

  • @bjarnenilsson80
    @bjarnenilsson80 Жыл бұрын

    Mac ks , since 10.5, is unix, ie at has been sertified as such by the open group thatare thevuwners of the unix trademark. So osx is more than derived from unix, it 'is Unix, linux however is not. But both oses are posix compliant. And yes indid react to the osx comment before warhing thus entire exelent video my bad)

  • @phyzix_phyzix
    @phyzix_phyzix Жыл бұрын

    macOS is a certified Unix OS

  • @biomagician
    @biomagician3 ай бұрын

    Hello and thank for this great video! Can I buy a computer with an operating system which is neither GNU/Linux, nor macOS, nor Windows but which is Unix? Which operating system could that be?

  • @hmdz150
    @hmdz1509 ай бұрын

    MacOS is Unix at core and this is clear when working with a terminal app in Mac. iOS and iPadOS are also based on Darwin which is Apple's unix core. I think MaC is the best OS for those who can't decide between Windows and Linux. It has the best of the both worlds. And Homebrew is a great package manager for Mac.

  • @pweddy1
    @pweddy13 ай бұрын

    Unix Csh was ripped off by CPM and CPM was ripped off by DOS. They literally chose the 8086 because there was a version of CPM for the 8080 & 8086.

  • @SHAKA-NEU-LU
    @SHAKA-NEU-LUАй бұрын

    I wonder if that’s why that command button is so important on Mac?

  • @insoft_uk
    @insoft_uk8 ай бұрын

    As a developer that uses macOS, UNIX, NeXT history and macOS roots become apparent straight away NSObject 🤔 NeXT Step

  • @heavannwright7471
    @heavannwright74716 ай бұрын

    Please tell me you made a video about c programing

  • @petertaylorarts
    @petertaylorarts Жыл бұрын

    I love that C came from Ken's wife Bonnie (B) and then morphed into C.

  • @First_Principals
    @First_Principals Жыл бұрын

    Watch the computer cronicals episodes about Unix with garry Kildal who created Dos.

  • @HaroldSchranz
    @HaroldSchranz10 ай бұрын

    Cute summary ... but I guess I've used most of the major (real) UNIXes(and Linuxes) and all the other real OSes (primarily TOPS-10, VMS) ... and quite a few (awful) OSes ... (including Windows/DOS, NOS, KRONOS,...) ... so I have a pretty good overview. Without DEC, we would probably not have UNIX.

  • @supercellex4D

    @supercellex4D

    10 ай бұрын

    how's DOS/Windows awful?

  • @richardbennett4365
    @richardbennett436510 ай бұрын

    Well, the graphic artist took the labels off the legends!!! Duh. Green means Unix-like, but the narrator didn't tell his audience so.

  • @unixtohack
    @unixtohack10 ай бұрын

    What about OS/2 ?

  • @AnnatarTheMaia
    @AnnatarTheMaia3 ай бұрын

    Windows is not inspired by UNIX, because Dave Cutler, the father of Windows, came from DEC and VAX / VMS, and is a notorious UNIX hater (and proud of it). VMS is nothing like UNIX at all. There is only one open source, freeware, canonical UNIX operating system directly descended from the original UNIX: illumos, being a fork of OpenSolaris, being an open source version of what was to become Solaris 11, being a direct descendent of AT&T System V Release 4.0 UNIX.

  • @performkaizen
    @performkaizen17 күн бұрын

    I don't understand why everyone is giving these positive comments but nothing in the title was ever answered in the video

  • @otens4747
    @otens47472 жыл бұрын

    So how secure is Unix

  • @TeXplaiNIT

    @TeXplaiNIT

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’ve heard that it’s more secure than windows due to popularity or rather lack thereof

  • @tylerdean980

    @tylerdean980

    2 жыл бұрын

    Unix is not available in modern form, best to use Linux or BSD. But it is much more secure than windows because it uses file permissions and has privilege levels that are more granular than windows. And it actually requires a password to install things by default, that alone is what causes 80% of windows infections.

  • @unwoke1652

    @unwoke1652

    Жыл бұрын

    All online financial transactions are done in BSD due to that OS being much more secure.

  • @firstfahri7586
    @firstfahri75865 ай бұрын

    Please libe this channel again :'''''(

  • @lewis72
    @lewis7210 ай бұрын

    I started my engineering career with Unix. First on Silicon Graphics Indigo 2s, the Sun, then HPs. Then, one company had switched over to MS Windows PCs when I started there and I had no idea how to use a Windows PC. I had had 7 years engineering experience, been to university, couldn't use a Windows PC. 😆 I hate MS Windows to this day; you seem to be always fighting it.

  • @supercellex4D

    @supercellex4D

    10 ай бұрын

    MS Windows has a far betterer architecture however

  • @lewis72

    @lewis72

    10 ай бұрын

    @@supercellex4D What does that mean in the real world ? It's a horrible operating system for doing actual work on; I've lost count the amount of hours of work I've lost because of it. Seems to have been created for people that don't know how to use a computer and just want to write an email or a letter.

  • @supercellex4D

    @supercellex4D

    10 ай бұрын

    @@lewis72 Windows NT kernel has asynchronous I/O, better permissions structures, better ABI, and honestly a more intuitive UI blows the hell outta Solaris or Linux or MacOSX or whatever

  • @lewis72

    @lewis72

    10 ай бұрын

    @@supercellex4D You didn't answer my question. "What does that mean in the real world ?" I've used Windows for work for many years now and it's utterly painful. I've lost count the amount of times I've had to restart the machine because it won't let me delete or rename a file because it _thinks_ it's open somewhere else when it isn't. You don't get that when using a Mac or Unix. You just go ahead and delete or rename it, without being told that it won't let you and then sending ages to find out why.

  • @supercellex4D

    @supercellex4D

    10 ай бұрын

    @@lewis72 there's a process somewhere using the file. windows tries not to currupt your data, while Unix-likes just break your computer cause you didn't use it right try powertoys file locksmith and just close the process keeping your file open

  • @vicheakeng4884
    @vicheakeng48845 ай бұрын

    0:07

  • @richardbennett4365
    @richardbennett436510 ай бұрын

    And, this man's chart has FreeBSD thereon, but legally it is not Unix, because it did not pay the $100 000 certification fee to The Open Group. This presenter needs to do a bit more careful research before touting what he knows. He's only partially correct on certain points.

  • @superyRun

    @superyRun

    6 ай бұрын

    Technically you are right, but that fact doesn't take away the main message of this video. Great video, thank you! :)

  • @krunkle5136
    @krunkle51368 ай бұрын

    Unix is a filesystem that spread and got out of hand.

  • @TeXplaiNIT

    @TeXplaiNIT

    7 ай бұрын

    Interesting take

  • @richardbennett4365
    @richardbennett436510 ай бұрын

    There's only one linux operating system that is certified as Unix. Only one. It's a Chinese Linux.

  • @StevenSiew2
    @StevenSiew29 ай бұрын

    Why is UNIX important? Because of Jurrasic Park. It's a UNIX System!!!

  • @TeXplaiNIT

    @TeXplaiNIT

    7 ай бұрын

    Absolutely

  • @GenerationZ0
    @GenerationZ0 Жыл бұрын

    Pay some respect lol

  • @richardbennett4365
    @richardbennett436510 ай бұрын

    If anyone has used a MacIntosh that runs macOS, then he/she most definitely has USED Unix, because macOS is a Unix operating system.

  • @unwoke1652
    @unwoke1652 Жыл бұрын

    I always understood that Linux came from MINIX, not UNIX.

  • @rsdigiomoney

    @rsdigiomoney

    Жыл бұрын

    But minix came from Unix

  • @johnhunt1725
    @johnhunt17257 ай бұрын

    The correct question is, why DID Unix matter? Because it really doesn't any more.

  • @martinbrink6711

    @martinbrink6711

    6 ай бұрын

    Unix still matters: iOS and MacOS are Unix (BSD Unix). Solaris and other operating systems used in the scientific community are Unix. Video title is correct.

  • @MrEnyecz
    @MrEnyecz9 ай бұрын

    Unix does NOT matter today. Unix went down with the Unix wars and the successor of it is Linux. Linux is the ruling operating system (I know it's not one operating system, but a family based on the same kernel) everywhere, except personal computers, where the ruling is Windows and probably MacOS. There is no Unix, just in history. But in history, there are other important systems like CP/M, which is the system that inspired the DOS->Windows line.

  • @krunkle5136

    @krunkle5136

    8 ай бұрын

    Mac OS is Unix based and is even POSIX compliant. Unix used to matter more, but its ideas of simplicity, worse is better, and modularity prevail. It is the world's most successful computer virus.

  • @tedisrozenfelds7630

    @tedisrozenfelds7630

    6 ай бұрын

    But Macintosh is another winner who arose from the Unix wars who dominates personal computer market. And as the author of video showed - actually Bill Gates (thus Windows in a way) also was one of the Unix wars participants, but after trying its stand in Unix like systems decided to create a completely different OS architecture. But we could say that that is also an outcome of Unix wars. So the winners of the Unix wars are all the modern OS giants - Linux, Macintosh and Windows