Unix, every mention
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every year anyone Marc Andreessen 8Martin Casado 4Benedict Evans 4Ali Yahya 4Steven Sinofsky 3Chris Wanstrath 3Stuart Butterfield 1Reed Hastings 1Ken Kocienda 1James Waters 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Unix comes up
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 4:28 Steven Sinofsky Well, Unix is going to prove to be right, which is like, you're going to ha, you're going to want to break things up into much smaller granularity and tools.
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 40:15 Marc Andreessen Um, and, uh, you know, there, we had this, we had a 6000 person division in Austin working on these, these Unix, Unix workstations at the time, graphical workstations. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:37 Marc Andreessen We're just going to assume that everybody has like windows or a Mac, um, or a Unix workstation. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:52 Marc Andreessen Eric and I co-wrote the first version of Mosaic, which was for Unix workstations. 2 times in the scene
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:25:32 Marc Andreessen He's the founder of Sun Microsystems, which was in many ways a company built on open source, built on open source Unix out of Berkeley, and then itself built a lot of open source, critical open source.
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 6:59 Ken Kocienda So it came along with this Unix based replacement, but, um, that, uh, uh, uh, uh, system didn't have its own web browser.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies
a16z Podcast | The End (and Beginning) of Programming
- ▶ 12:36 Chris Wanstrath The Unix windowing system, X-Windows, so I've used that for a long time.
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 18:34 Steven Sinofsky And what Apple is able to do is the bet that they've made is that we have a platform that's made up of a set of APIs, a Unix operating system kernel, these ARM chips that have all of these sensors and capabilities.
a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- ▶ 4:46 Martin Casado There's an existing market, say Unix.
- ▶ 21:15 James Waters Red Hat kinda got lucky and find a commoditizing change, which was Unix to Linux.
a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- ▶ 27:06 Reed Hastings This is, the original one was 45 years ago, which was Ken Olson, who ran Digital Equipment, said Unix is snake oil.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 14:16 Benedict Evans Mobile defined as ARM, iOS, Android, um, Unix-based, or you can argue about the operating system, but ARM and mobile and touch is the new generation of computing, and Microsoft basically failed to, to, to make headway, and that has written…
a16z Podcast | All About Microservices
- ▶ 15:01 Martin Casado And I, I, I still love Chris Dixon's quote of, you know, every Unix command becomes a company is like crap becomes Google or whatever. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Selling to Developers & Open Source Business Models
- ▶ 15:28 Martin Casado And like the reality is it's much easier to say, listen, you've got Unix, you pay a lot of money for it.
a16z Podcast | Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack
- ▶ 7:12 Stuart Butterfield So the reason I was into games was in 1992, I started college, and I got an account on the school's Unix server, and I discovered Usenet and Talk and IRC, and I got my mind blown by the idea that humans could use computers to interact with…
a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
- ▶ 9:36 Chris Wanstrath Yeah, I read a blog post once that was like, all you need to do is find a Unix tool and make it into a website, and you'll be rich. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
- ▶ 4:13 Steven Sinofsky I actually would have called it Unix, but you call it Linux.
a16z Podcast | Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist
- ▶ 25:30 Benedict Evans It's got Unix and a CPU on it, or whatever you can do on a piece of glass that size it can do. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 1:23 Benedict Evans And, and actually the interesting question is how many people have an affordable data plan rather than how many people have a phone running Unix or some other operating system.
Cryptonetworks and Cities: Analogies
Quantum Computing: A Primer
- ▶ 26:41 Frank Chen So the transistor itself, semiconductors, information theory, the C programming language, the Unix operating system.