UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use ATT Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories

The Unix System: Making Computers Easier to Use 1982 This 23minute film about UNIX was designed for students with an interest in engineering, math, computer science or other sciences. The film was made available to the public in December 1982. It covers different ways that UNIX could be employed practically in a computing environment. Another film about UNIX released at the same time, The UNIX System: Making Computers More Productive, was aimed at computer science majors and corporate trainees, and presented a more detailed discussion of the UNIX system and its various applications. Hosted by Victor Vyssotsky in a CarlSaganesque turtleneck sweater, this film includes Dennis Ritchie, one of UNIX s inventors, along with Bell Labs staffers and programmers Brian Kernighan, Catherine Ann Brooks, Lorinda Cherry, Alfred Aho, Nina Macdonald, and John Mashey. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson started work on what would become UNIX originally in 1969. They developed it to run