The Legacy of Unix - Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan

In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan. Brian Kernighan, one of the inventors of Unix, discusses in detail how the idea came to be, who the key contributors were, and what about Unix made it so revolutionary.

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Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan
https://amzn.to/40bB6mN (paid link)

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00:00 Intro
01:38 About the Book
04:19 Thoughts on the Book
12:08 Bell Labs, Multics, and Proto-Unix
31:54 Making Unix Useful to others
38:59 Unix Structure and Philosophy
53:18 7th Edition, Community, and Beyond Research
59:23 Unix, Universities, Growth, Plan 9, and Beyond
01:15:41 Final Thoughts

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