On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 15:58 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Now, does anybody have anything to say about the CONTENT of the video > at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECCr_KFl41E ?
I enjoyed the video. To be more specific, I liked his assessment of what 'ingredients' led to unix development and his assessment of whether a 'unix' could be built again. As I think about it, that question leads right to the quote from Dennis Ritchie that Brian put up at the end of his speech or presentation. That is: "What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which a fellowship could form. We knew from experience that the essence of communal computing [...] is not just to type programs into a terminal instead of a keypunch but to encourage close communication." Pretty neat stuff. It occurs to me that what Dennis says was their goal, was to preserve the human aspects of those criteria that produced unix. Thanks for sharing. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
