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Unix Windowing Terminal System Blit, 1982, Bell Labs
- dryicerx 17y agoWhen I want to compile a program, I don't have to exit the program, I just go to another layer and type make Although my current setup for editing and compiling is still eerily identical to that.
- daeken 17y agoI've spent the last two days implementing VGA and basic graphics support in my OS, and it's great to watch this and see something I know I can implement in a short period of time with what I've already built. Good for morale if nothing else.
- mahmud 17y agoUnix compilers are slow, so to entertain myself while I am waiting, I can play Asteroids! Good lord. The whole video had an underlying tone of fun. I have read this repeatedly and heard it in person from several older engineers: "unix is a toy", "unix is for playing video games and writing term papers", "unix is for usenet", etc. During that time, if I was a buttoned down government or corporate programmer with IBM and Honeywell training, jockeying Cobol, assembly and Fortran, I too would eschew this newfangled game-playing computer. [Edit: I was gonna say Dan Ingalls invented bitblit operation that made 2d graphics possible, then I saw he had a hand in the production of the video as well ;-) ]