THE VIDEO SHELF · unix philosophy
UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use -- AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories
A 1982 AT&T Bell Labs film for students about the Unix system and how it can be used practically. It includes Lorinda Cherry building a talking calculator by piping together Unix commands, and a spell checker made from Unix utilities.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it as a demonstration of the Unix philosophy, with small tools composed through pipes.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- AT&T Tech Channel
- Topic
- unix philosophy
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 6
- HN mentions in dataset
- 9
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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That was a great watch...and if you keep on watching for a few more minutes, you can watch Lorinda L. Cherry rewrite his implementation using Unix pipes and then creating a talking calculator. The screencasting technology wasn't quite there yet ;), but both are really …
danso on Hacker News · 2015-12
In A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering (2008)Others might also find interesting this video from 1982 where Brian Kernighan demonstrates building a simple spell checker using UNIX command line utilities: [VIDEO]
bithive123 on Hacker News · 2015-12
In A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering (2008)Also I found these fascinating: The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) has a lot of history and takes you back in time.. [LINK] Brian Kernighan 'interviews' Ken Thompson (2019) - Ken telling stories. They're both very funny, a very entertaining video, some stories I (and even Brian) …
yesenadam on Hacker News · 2019-11
In A Mystery of Unix History
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.
