Wectar - Computers - Software - Operating Systems - Unix - History

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	Unix History URL: http://www.levenez.com/unix/ ODP description: A detailed family tree. Page title: UNIX History Page description: A Unix history's diagram
	Unix Programmer's Manual, Seventh Edition URL: http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/ ODP description: Archives at Bell Labs of the 1979 manual. Troff source and formatted Gzipped PostScript/PDF versions. Page title: Unix Seventh Edition Manual
	The Creation of the UNIX Operating System URL: http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/ ODP description: Lengthy encyclopedia-quality article from Bell Labs, covering the early days to the present versions. Page title: The Creation of the UNIX* Operating System
	CSRG Archive CD-ROMs URL: http://www.mckusick.com/csrg/ ODP description: The full source archives of the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group, for sale on a 4-CD set.
	About the FreeBSD Project URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/history.html ODP description: History and overview from the FreeBSD Handbook.
	Dennis Ritchie's Home Page URL: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/ ODP description: Several historic technical reports, anecdotes, and stories from one of the fathers of Unix. Page title: Dennis Ritchie Home Page
	The UNIX Time-Sharing System URL: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html ODP description: Ritchie and Thompson's famous Communications of the ACM paper from 1974. An authoritative and technical overview of the operating system. Page title: BSTJ version of C.ACM Unix paper
	A Brief History of Unix URL: http://www.hsrl.rutgers.edu/ug/unix_history.html ODP description: 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."
	The Unix System: History and Timeline URL: http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html ODP description: Historical summary and timeline. Page title: The UNIX System -- History and Timeline -- UNIX History
	The Unix Heritage Society URL: http://www.tuhs.org/ ODP description: 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. Page description: The Unix Heritage Society
	UNIX History Graphing Project URL: http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/index.html ODP description: Lists of release dates and dependencies for the various Unix flavors. A graphical representation of the Unix family tree is planned. Page description: UNIX History Graphing Project
	History of the BSD Daemon URL: http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/ ODP description: Various drawings, pictures, and information on the red devil BSD mascot. Page title: History of BSD T-shirts
	History of Unix, Linux, and Open Source URL: http://www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/history.html ODP description: Historical comparison of Unix and the free software movement. Page title: History of Unix, Linux, and Open Source / Free Software
	Nick Moffitt's $7 History of Unix URL: http://crackmonkey.org/unix.html ODP description: History paper detailing the people and places involved in developing Unix.
	A Brief Synopsis of Unix History URL: http://kb.indiana.edu/data/acve.html?cust=7748 ODP description: University of Indiana Knowledge Base article. Summary of Unix versions and links to related entries. Page title: Where can I learn about the history of Unix? - Knowledge Base
	Bell Labs: Selected Technical Reports URL: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html ODP description: Several classic Unix papers dating back to 1973. Most reports are Gzipped PostScript, some are in PDF.
	A History of UNIX before Berkeley URL: http://www.darwinsys.com/history/hist.html ODP description: A detailed overview of Unix people and components, 1975-1984. Page title: A History of UNIX before Berkeley: UNIX Evolution: 1975-1984
	OMU - One Man Unix URL: http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=335 ODP description: Steve Hosgood's work with an early 1980s Unix clone. Includes some utility sources. Page title: Feature: OMU - One Man Unix
	The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System URL: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html ODP description: 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." Page title: Early Unix history and evolution