Discovering Unix: Vivek’s First Encounter & Leo’s Revelation

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]And the guy who sat there, the owner of the shop or whatever, he was a caretaker or whatever, he used to be sitting on a terminal which seemed to be pretty slowly. I think he was logging into some Unix system. And he had a big thick book called Unix Unix fundamentals or whatever. So, we had heard that there was this big Unix thing which would run on supercomputers and there was a big boys OS and all that stuff and multiple users could use it. Things you read from magazines. And we were like, okay, this is Unix.

[00:00:25]>> Like this thing this I remember saying like these exact words. This is what an operating system is supposed to be. And that was Unix System V release 3.