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The Blit - The first Unix graphical multi-programming terminal by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi

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  • Presented by Rob Pike, co-creator of the Blit

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Rob Pike demonstrates the Blit, a pioneering graphical window system and multi-programming terminal developed at Bell Labs in 1982.

A short video that demos the Blit Unix terminal, the first Unix graphical window system (paper and more info at doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/blit/ ), created at Bell Labs by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi , in 1982!.

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