Journey of Unix in Supercomputers

Unix was written by two people on a computer nobody wanted, and for its first fifteen years the company that owned it was barred by a court decree from the computer business. That is exactly why it ended up running nearly everything: every one of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers, Android, the Mac. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open: one family tree 0:59 I. The giant that failed (Multics) 2:10 II. A machine nobody wanted (the PDP-7) 3:51 III. The patent lawyers' word processor 5:57 IV. The language that set it free (C) 7:38 V. Forbidden to sell it 10:33 VI. When AT&T could sell it 13:52 So why did Unix win?