High Level Languages & the IBM 360 Series - Computerphile

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: https://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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This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.

Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer

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