Unix
family of computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix from 1969
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Videos Mentioning Unix

A brief history of programming...
Fireship
Operating system that popularized small, composable programs and piping between processes.

Coffee with Brian Kernighan - Computerphile
Computerphile

Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror | Lex Fridman Podcast #7
Lex Fridman
A foundational operating system philosophy that Jeff Atwood came to admire, emphasizing command-line tools and a modular approach, influencing his views on modern software development.

James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing | Lex Fridman Podcast #126
Lex Fridman
The operating system that James Gosling worked with extensively, particularly relevant as the platform for his Emacs implementation.

Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109
Lex Fridman
An operating system discussed as having been developed over 50 years ago, originating from efforts at Bell Labs and becoming a foundational system for modern computing due to its programmer-centric design and efficiency.

David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage | Lex Fridman Podcast #104
Lex Fridman
A famous operating system, considered the grandfather of all operating systems today, which demonstrated that complex operating systems could be written in C.

CPU Summary - Computerphile
Computerphile

Inside Google DeepMind: AGI, Robotics, & World Models Explained - Demis Hassabis
All-In Podcast

Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
Latent Space
The operating system concept that Claude Code is modeled after, acting as a utility that can be composed.

The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
Latent Space
An operating system, whose birth spurred the development of languages like C.

Marc Goodman Interview (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
An operating system used as an analogy to describe how modern cars are essentially complex computer systems.

Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160
Lex Fridman
An operating system that Eich was interested in as an undergrad, leading him to try porting it to custom hardware.