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• Kernighan, Brian
• Linux
• Ritchie, Dennis

Resources in This Category

• A Brief History of Unix

  http://www.mindpride.net/root/Extras/History/OS/history_of_unix.htm
  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."

• A Brief Synopsis of Unix History

  https://kb.iu.edu/d/acve
  University of Indiana Knowledge Base article. Summary of Unix versions and links to related entries.

• A History of UNIX before Berkeley

  http://www.darwinsys.com/history/hist.html
  A detailed overview of Unix people and components, 1975-1984.

• About the FreeBSD Project

  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/history.html
  History and overview from the FreeBSD Handbook.

• CSRG Archive CD-ROMs

  http://www.mckusick.com/csrg/
  The full source archives of the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group, for sale on a 4-CD set.

• History of the BSD Daemon

  http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/
  Various drawings, pictures, and information on the red devil BSD mascot.

• History of Unix, Linux, and Open Source

  http://www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/history.html
  Historical comparison of Unix and the free software movement.

• The Unix Heritage Society

  http://www.tuhs.org/
  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.

• The Unix System: History and Timeline

  http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html
  Historical summary and timeline.

• Unix History

  http://www.levenez.com/unix/
  A detailed family tree.

• UNIX History Graphing Project

  http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/index.html
  Lists of release dates and dependencies for the various Unix flavors. A graphical representation of the Unix family tree is planned.

• Unix Programmer's Manual, Seventh Edition

  http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/
  Archives at Bell Labs of the 1979 manual. Troff source and formatted Gzipped PostScript/PDF versions.

• VAX Archive

  http://www.vaxarchive.org/
  VAX hardware information, articles about VMS and BSD operating systems, Unix and PDP-11 links collections.

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