Very good talk with many insights on hiatorical precedences. I am however very very surprised when he says that grep, awk and sed originated outside of Bell Labs?? This seems potentially a mistake for at least 2 : grep (by Thompson, iirc?) and awk (the 3 letters are 3 people of bell labs: Aho, Weinberg(spelling?) and the famous and great Kernighan).
6:13 what do the numbers~10, ~25, ~100,... mean? I thought maybe PDP sales figures, but Wikipedia has much higher sales figures for at least the PDP-1, PDP-4 and PDP-7.
There's a photo at 6:45 of a PDP (I guess) being delivered to the University of Stockholm. Where is this photo from, is there more info somewhere? I'm doing a presentation on this stuff and I'm in Sweden so would be fun to have som trivia related to Sweden.
History of the internet deserves a short tv series. Milestones and oddly funny stories. Dont make it tho, it just deserves it in comparison to whats being aired.
Lots of remarkable details, thanks! The ressurection of the original PDP-7 Unix is amazing.
Very good talk with many insights on hiatorical precedences.
I am however very very surprised when he says that grep, awk and sed originated outside of Bell Labs?? This seems potentially a mistake for at least 2 : grep (by Thompson, iirc?) and awk (the 3 letters are 3 people of bell labs: Aho, Weinberg(spelling?) and the famous and great Kernighan).
Brilliant history lesson - far more interesting stuff happening in those days than is usually told. Thanks for sharing !!!
Great talk, the multihour version would be interesting too. Hearing PWB, Datakit, etc. definitely hits some old memory cobwebs lol
Amazing talk! Thank you!
Seems rude of the audience members to get up while the Q&A session is in progress
Very interesting thank you.
Audience was a bit noisy during questions.
My history began with CB Unix witch ran the Switching Control Center System (SCCS). I was an ESS switch tech for Southern Bell.
DMERT ran the 5ESS.
Thanks for posting. Great vid!
6:13 what do the numbers~10, ~25, ~100,... mean? I thought maybe PDP sales figures, but Wikipedia has much higher sales figures for at least the PDP-1, PDP-4 and PDP-7.
Maybe not the sales figures of PDPs, but installed Unix configurations?
There's a photo at 6:45 of a PDP (I guess) being delivered to the University of Stockholm. Where is this photo from, is there more info somewhere? I'm doing a presentation on this stuff and I'm in Sweden so would be fun to have som trivia related to Sweden.
fantastic absolutely fantastic wonderful talk thank you wow
It's funny to think we have Unix and it's derivates coz some old school nerd wanted to play crappy space game
Lmfao
It's quite like in evolution. Unix was able to reach reproductive success whereas other systems weren't.
History of the internet deserves a short tv series. Milestones and oddly funny stories. Dont make it tho, it just deserves it in comparison to whats being aired.
Does anyone have links to the slides?
I wonder if a PDP-7 could count the number of times this guy said 'ah' and 'ummmm'. Over 100? Good bye ah um
Anything before BSV was a mess.
Hakan Lans father of GPU.