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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."
http://www.hsrl.rutgers.edu/ug/unix_history.html
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Bell Labs: Selected Technical Reports
Several classic Unix papers dating back to 1973. Most reports are Gzipped PostScript, some are in PDF.
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html
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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.
http://www.mckusick.com/csrg/
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History of the BSD Daemon
Various drawings, pictures, and information on the red devil BSD mascot.
http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/
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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."
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html
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Dennis Ritchie's Home Page
Several historic technical reports, anecdotes, and stories from one of the fathers of Unix.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/
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Nick Moffitt's $7 History of Unix
History paper detailing the people and places involved in developing Unix.
http://crackmonkey.org/unix.html
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Unix Programmer's Manual, Seventh Edition
Archives at Bell Labs of the 1979 manual. Troff source and formatted Gzipped PostScript/PDF versions.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/
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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.
http://www.tuhs.org/
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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.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html
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