[HN Gopher] David Mackenzie - A Personal History with Linux and ...
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       David Mackenzie - A Personal History with Linux and BSD Unix
       [video]
        
       Author : bhasi
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2024-08-17 04:04 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | bhasi wrote:
       | David Mackenzie is the author (or co-author) of many basic GNU
       | utilities such as `ls`, `chmod`, `touch`, and many others. I was
       | looking up the manpage for the `install` command today and came
       | across his name listed as its sole author. I had some time to
       | kill, so I looked him up and this fascinating video came up in
       | which he discusses his early life and how he came to work for GNU
       | and wrote all these utilities. I highly recommend watching this
       | till the end.
        
         | Technetium wrote:
         | Videos of this caliber are rare to find organically. I would
         | have never otherwise known that he had a YouTube channel. Thank
         | you very much for posting this.
        
           | sulandor wrote:
           | you meant systematically or programmatically?
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           | hearing from someone else is indeed organic
        
       | pjmlp wrote:
       | His talks are great to watch, and the books on BSD design as
       | well.
        
       | jasoneckert wrote:
       | At 46:10, David is showing an article on AI and UNIX from
       | UnixWorld magazine in 1984 and subtly comments "Nothing new
       | there..."
        
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