Unix, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Ben Gilbert 7Steve Ballmer 4David Rosenthal 3Brendan Eich 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Unix comes up
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 12:58 Ben Gilbert The first instantiation of this is just a search box to search his personal Unix mail directory as if it is the old Usenet posts that they had just bought.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:15:21 Ben Gilbert And it starts as, I'm gonna look in your Unix directory at your mail, and I'm just gonna treat that like the web, just the same way that we treat web pages, and so I'm just gonna take a search box, and I'm gonna point it at your mail
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 51:58 Steve Ballmer I mean, people say that they might mean Azure, AWS, or in the old days, Windows, or Windows Server, or Unix, uh, then Linux.
- ▶ 1:21:50 Steve Ballmer Unix had a strong developer group, and on the front end, Windows was definitely stronger.
- ▶ 1:21:57 Steve Ballmer On the back end, Unix was definitely stronger.
- ▶ 1:23:21 Steve Ballmer And then on Windows Server, Unix was stronger on the back end.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 36:00 David Rosenthal Green screens, Unix terminals.
- ▶ 51:05 Ben Gilbert Unix, which are huge hospital systems, or children's hospitals.
- ▶ 51:19 David Rosenthal Which she has to for the Unix-based product that she's making, because those are the only institutions that have Unix infrastructure.
- ▶ 58:06 David Rosenthal It was terminal access directly into a Unix-based database on a mainframe or on a mini computer.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 1:33:25 Ben Gilbert Apple had to this point, well, building, you know, this operating system, the scaled down version of OS X, it's Unix.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 17:09 Ben Gilbert When Linux came out and you could do the stuff that you used to need Unix workstations for on an open source operating system, well then everything changed because you can go buy a whole bunch of different hardware, put Linux on it, and…
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 38:01 Ben Gilbert It was just the very basic protocols and a Unix command terminal, and you can maybe Telnet was around at that point, but.
- ▶ 1:28:11 Ben Gilbert They expected their customer service people to, like, use Unix terminals and write commands so that when someone would write right in, they're like, where's my order?
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:07:03 Brendan Eich And then Ethereum got slow and the fees were too high, but in some ways it's like Unix, the Ethereum virtual machine.
- ▶ 1:07:16 Brendan Eich Polygon, obviously, uh, Avalanche's C chain is an EVM compatible, like the Unix system call table being copied into different flavors of Unix.