Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "The Rise of Unix. The Seeds of its Fall." video.

  1. And there's EMACS. "If EMACS had a word processor, it would really be useful."
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  2.  @michaelhoffmann2891  Agreed. Or DDT, supposedly Dynamic Debugging Technique. 1971-ish.
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  3. The diagram at 13:00 is not quite right. ARPAnet had seven connections in 1969, two of them in Britain. The name DARPA, to "comply" with the Mansfield Amendment which forbade the spending of DOD money on civilian computer research by making ARPA suddenly "military," was kicked around in September or October of 1971, but I don't think it was formally adopted until 1972.
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  4. Re-viewing this later, I see the reference is to 1979. By that time, yes, DARPA was the correct name. At some point a ittle bit later than that, the military stepped away from it completely, instead of being benignly in the background. There was a "complete" break in the Obama Administration, but I'm not sure what this means because the 1984-ish break had supposedly been total, too.
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  5.  @olafschluter706  Never forget: Jobs was one of the world's all-time most successful thieves: Apple's software is straight out copied from Xerox's.
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  6.  @weltvonalex  Overrated maybe?
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