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Every so often the seminal-talk slot lands on something older than every framework it critiques. This one runs a full 27 minutes and it is not a re-enactment: it is the actual 1982 Bell Labs promotional film, with Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Alfred Aho, Stu Feldman, and Lorinda Cherry on camera explaining, in their own voices, why the system they built looks the way it does. The AT&T Archives channel has now cleared it for wide release, so the classic-of-the-week pick this week writes itself....