Open Directory - Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Unix: History

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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.
A Brief Synopsis of Unix History - University of Indiana Knowledge Base article. Summary of Unix versions and links to related entries.
A History of UNIX before Berkeley - A detailed overview of Unix people and components, 1975-1984.
About the FreeBSD Project - History and overview from the FreeBSD Handbook.
Bell Labs: Selected Technical Reports - Several classic Unix papers dating back to 1973. Most reports are Gzipped PostScript, some are in PDF.
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.
Dennis Ritchie's Home Page - Several historic technical reports, anecdotes, and stories from one of the fathers of Unix.
History of Unix, Linux, and Open Source - Historical comparison of Unix and the free software movement.
History of the BSD Daemon - Various drawings, pictures, and information on the red devil BSD mascot.
Nick Moffitt's $7 History of Unix - History paper detailing the people and places involved in developing Unix.
OMU - One Man Unix - Steve Hosgood's work with an early 1980s Unix clone. Includes some utility sources.
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."
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.
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.
The Unix System: History and Timeline - Historical summary and timeline.
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.
Unix History - A detailed family tree.
Unix Programmer's Manual, Seventh Edition - Archives at Bell Labs of the 1979 manual. Troff source and formatted Gzipped PostScript/PDF versions.

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