Video productions
The following are video productions featuring subjects whom are directly involved in Unix, speaking on the topic of Unix itself.
- 1982: 📼 The UNIX System a 2-part VHS video from Bell Labs, produced by EWB Productions, Inc.. (Worldcat)
- Making Computers More Productive
- Roughly half-hour length
- Victor A Vyssotsky, who worked on Multics, is the host of program
- Kernighan explains and demonstrates the pipeline
- Alfred Aho remarks on the proliferation of programs within the community
- Stephen Curtis Johnson talks about parsers applied to source code (ASTs)
- Dennis Ritchie is briefly seen explaining a few topics, including input/output redirection.
- Making Computers Easier to Use
- A shorter cut probably aimed at a more general audience
- Kernighan's whizbang pipeline demo is broken up in discrete steps
- Contains additional explanations not found in the other video
- Nina Macdonald is seen explaining Writer's Workbench
- Catherine Ann Brooks explains the filesystem and the distinction of formatless files
- Dennis Ritchie also explains formatless files
- Making Computers More Productive
- 1983: Systems Architecture, Design, Engineering, and Verification
- Panel: Fernando José Corbató, Ernest Allen Emerson, Joseph Sifakis, Ken Thompson
- 1985: 📼 The Computer Chronicles: UNIX (YouTube)
- John Mashey, manager from Bell Labs video, has now moved on to MIPS (and 1 other venture).
- Bill Joy, creator of Vi and a founder of Sun Microsystems is seen remarking on how standards commitees can end up slowing down development.
- 2018: Unix History
- by Rob Pike
- for Sydney Tech Week
- 2019: Unix 50, a 2-day event held by (Nokia) Bell Labs at Murray Hill, NJ
- The Origin of Unix
- panel with Brian Kernighan, Doug McIlroy, Peter Weinberger, Jon Bentley, and Stephen Johnson
- The Compute
- by Al Aho and Chris White
- The Origin of Unix