Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Mythical Man Month wasn't just about project management! The Professor continues this tale from the 1960's & asks "Could IBM have used high-level languages to write the Operating System for their new 360 series machines?"
Adoption of C (fourth time lucky!) as the higher-level language for writing the OS kernel of UNIX is told by Ken Thompson, at VCF East 2019: bit.ly/C_Kern_Thom_VCFEast2019
Special thanks to Clem Cole and RichardInParis for much extra background information on 360 hardware and software
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The Mythical Man Month wasn't just about project management! The Professor continues this tale from the 1960's & asks "Could IBM have used high-level languages to write the Operating System for their new 360 series machines?"
Adoption of C (fourth time lucky!) as the higher-level language for writing the OS kernel of UNIX is told by Ken Thompson, at VCF East 2019: bit.ly/C_Kern_Thom_VCFEast2019
Special thanks to Clem Cole and RichardInParis for much extra background information on 360 hardware and software
facebook.com/computerphile
twitter.com/computer_phile
This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.
Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: bit.ly/nottscomputer
Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at bradyharan.com
