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A detailed family tree.
http://www.levenez.com/unix/
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History of Unix, Linux, and Open Source
Historical comparison of Unix and the free software movement.
http://www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/history.html
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About the FreeBSD Project
History and overview from the FreeBSD Handbook.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/history.html
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OMU - One Man Unix
Steve Hosgood's work with an early 1980s Unix clone. Includes some utility sources.
http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=335
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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.
http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/index.html
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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."
http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/docs/unix.html
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The Creation of the UNIX Operating System
Lengthy encyclopedia-quality article from Bell Labs, covering the early days to the present
versions.
http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/
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History and Timeline: UNIX Past
Historical summary and timeline.
http://www.unix-systems.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html
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A Brief Synopsis of Unix History
University of Indiana Knowledge Base article. Summary of Unix versions and links to related
entries.
http://kb.indiana.edu/data/acve.html?cust=7748
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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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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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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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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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A History of UNIX before Berkeley
A detailed overview of Unix people and components, 1975-1984.
http://www.daemonnews.org/199903/history.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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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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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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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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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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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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