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How have I not seen this before? It so needs to be live tweeted. https://archive.org/details/UNIX1985
Why all the excitement about UNIX? And will UNIX become the next MS-DOS?
Shortly after showing troff scrolling on the screen: The shell structure is friendly, allowing even first time users to do complex tasks.
An alternative to a multi-user environment is local area networks. I think it is important to contrast that with a multi-user system. At some time that will be a viable alternative. Right now you don't have a hard standard network... but I think that is somethig to watch for..
"As for the future of UNIX, he (Bill Joy) says its open source code, versatility and ability to work on a variety of machines means it will be popular with engineers and scientists for some time to come."
1985 is the earliest reference to "open source" that I've seen.
1985 is the earliest reference to "open source" that I've seen.
"But will UNIX ever make it big in the business market? Bill Joy doubts it. He says that what it needs is something big like Lotus 123. Until then he's not very hopeful."
"We hear about Xenix, UNIX, you call your thing HP-UX, ... why are there so many versions of UNIX?"
"The proliferation of names besides UNIX is due to AT&T's requirement that you not call it UNIX."
"The proliferation of names besides UNIX is due to AT&T's requirement that you not call it UNIX."
"I think that everybody improves the recipe they get from grandma, or in this case 'Ma', ..."
"Do we lose anything in the implementation? Is this the same UNIX?"
"The only thing we left out was the hard disk."
"The only thing we left out was the hard disk."
"There are incompatible UNIX dialects galore. UNIX is a user-hostile operating system, dramatically short on software."
Atari also unveiled its new CDROM storage system. A disk can hold 500 megabytes and will sell for $500.
I left out lots of stuff that was more substantive. Go watch it to get your geek on.
