Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "The Computer Chronicles - UNIX (1985)" video.

  1. It is funny to hear them talking about the reliability of UNIX. Remember that they are comparing UNIX to other mainframe operating systems like IBM OS/360 and its descendants, certainly not to MS-DOS or its descendants. In OS/360, the system stays running even if a CPU burns out.
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  2. When a teenager (late seventies -- early eighties) I had my first encounters with UNIX in the engineers that worked for my father who used UNIX and were very enthusiastic about it. Then at Uni I had my first look at it in the form of an Apollo Workstation. After that, SUN workstations with which I fell in love -- but couldn't afford for personal use. Then I had to wait for Linux to become really usable, in the early naughts. Around 2013-14 I wiped Windows off my work laptop and never looked back. Proving Mr. Schindler completely wrong. We have only one Windows computer in the house: the school laptop my oldest son uses.
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  3. Funny that Bill Joy made that remark about UNIX missing an office suite. By acquiring, porting and then Open-Sourcing staroffice - OpenOffice - LibreOffice etc, he like no other removed that particular obstacle.
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  4. Knowing how this developed, this introduction is particularly painful. But for the grotesque stupidity, shortsightedness and selfishness of the UNIX companies, it would have overtaken MS-DOS and Windows before they got their monopolies. Instead we had two decades of struggling with inferior SW.
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