Mainframes and the Unix Revolution - Computerphile

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No internet, no networking; just a screen and a keyboard, or a pile of cards to punch holes in; mainframes were a world apart from today's smartphones and integrated circuits. Professor Brailsford remembers the Unix revolution. To hear about the omission of Gnu and Richard Stallman: http://youtu.be/Wi326Leuemg ICL computer photographs courtesy of couperus.org ICL punch-card photographs courtesy of yesterdaystechnology.com Professor Brailsford's discussion on the origin of Computer Science in academia http://youtu.be/uNuFVq5QeRk http://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at:http://periodicvideos.blogspot.co.uk/...

Published 2013-07-19 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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