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Home: History: Operating Systems: Unix
- A Brief History of Unix
History of Unix and causes for its popularity. "This document is designed to give people with no previous UNIX experience some sense of what UNIX is. This document will cover the history of UNIX and an introduction to UNIX."
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- CSRG Archive CD-ROMs
The full source archives of the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group, for sale on a 4-CD set.
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- OMU - One Man Unix
Steve Hosgood's work with an early 1980s Unix clone. Includes some utility sources.
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- The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System
1979 conference paper by Dennis Ritchie. "Concentrates on the evolution of the file system, the process-control mechanism, and the idea of pipelined commands. Some attention is paid to social conditions during the development of the system."
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- The History of UNIX
Chapter-length article by Ronda Hauben on "how the need to automate telephone support operations in the U.S. in the late 1960s and the early 1970s nourished the birth and development of the UNIX operating system and how academic computer science contributed to and gained from the development of UNIX."
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- The Unix Heritage Society
Built to foster the "the preservation and maintenance of historical and non-mainstream UNIX systems." Mailing list and archives. Includes early Unix source code, from 1973 through the 1990s.
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- The UNIX Time-Sharing System
Ritchie and Thompson's famous Communications of the ACM paper from 1974. An authoritative and technical overview of the operating system.
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- UNIX History Graphing Project
Lists of release dates and dependencies for the various Unix flavors. A graphical representation of the Unix family tree is planned.
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