UNIX - Revision history

Jnc: /* History */ +Unix History

2025-07-07T13:59:53Z

‎History: +Unix History

Jnc: /* Fun links */ +What is a UNIX Guru?

2025-07-07T13:55:18Z

‎Fun links: +What is a UNIX Guru?

Jnc: /* External links */ +MUNIX, a multiprocessing version of UNIX; sort links into groups

2025-07-03T13:20:32Z

‎External links: +MUNIX, a multiprocessing version of UNIX; sort links into groups

Jnc: /* External links */ +Evolution of the Unix System Architecture

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‎External links: +Evolution of the Unix System Architecture

Jnc: /* External links */ Missed several

2025-06-11T16:26:48Z

‎External links: Missed several

Jnc: /* External links */ +The Restoration of Early UNIX Artifacts; update Bell Labs URLs

2025-06-11T14:14:52Z

‎External links: +The Restoration of Early UNIX Artifacts; update Bell Labs URLs

Jnc: /* See also */ +The Unix Heritage Society

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‎See also: +The Unix Heritage Society

Jnc: /* External links */ +TUHS Archive

2025-05-15T04:57:58Z

‎External links: +TUHS Archive

ForOldHack: /* External links */ Was missing the PDF link print for which I am printing, and using.

2024-07-31T18:32:45Z

‎External links: Was missing the PDF link print for which I am printing, and using.

ForOldHack: /* External links */ added a link to the UNIX history tree that Kernigan refrences in his memior.

2024-07-31T18:26:50Z

‎External links: added a link to the UNIX history tree that Kernigan refrences in his memior.

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 * Warren Toomey, [https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix09/tech/full_papers/toomey/toomey.pdf ''The Restoration of Early UNIX Artifacts''] <!--
 https://www.singlix.com/trdos/archive/pdf_archive/toomey.pdf -->
 * [https://wpollock.com/Unix/UnixHistoryChart.htm The UNIX History tree (Horizontal timeline)]
 ** [https://www.tech-insider.org/unix/research/2002/0601.html The UNIX History tree in html, with links to the principal authors]
 * Diomidis Spinellis, Paris Avgeriou, [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8704965 ''Evolution of the Unix System Architecture: An Exploratory Case Study''], IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Volume 47, Number 6, June 2021
 * [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/should-we-thank-for-feds-for-the-success-of-unix/ The Unix revolution—thank you, Uncle Sam?]

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 * [http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan/upc/ The Unix Power Classic: A book about the Unix Way and its power] - Hacker-oriented version of the Dao De Jing
 * [http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ Rootless Root: The Unix Koans of Master Foo]
 {{Nav Unix}}

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 ==External links==
 * [https://www.tuhs.org/ The Unix Heritage Society]
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 https://www.singlix.com/trdos/archive/pdf_archive/thompson78unix.pdf -->
 * [https://maibriz.de/unix/ultrix/etc/iosys.pdf The UNIX I/O System] - a Ritchie document covering part of the same ground in more detail
 * [http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/ The UNIX Operating System]
 ** Ian F. Darwin, Geoffrey Collyer, [http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/unix-before-berkeley/ ''A History of UNIX before Berkeley: UNIX Evolution: 1975-1984'']
 ** [http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/unix-reader/ A Research UNIX Reader]
 * [http://squoze.net/UNIX/bltj/ bltj] - the second [[Bell System Technical Journal|BSTJ]] issue on UNIX
 ** [http://squoze.net/UNIX/bltj/06771906.pdf The UNIX System: Preface]
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 ** [http://squoze.net/UNIX/bltj/06771919.pdf The Evolution of UNIX System Performance]
 ** [http://squoze.net/UNIX/bltj/06771925.pdf A Stream Input-Output System]
 * [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/portpapers.html Papers about Unix Portability]
 ** S. C. Johnson, D. M. Ritchie, [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/portpap.html ''Portability of C Programs and the UNIX System''] - the 8/32 port
 * [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/should-we-thank-for-feds-for-the-success-of-unix/ The Unix revolution—thank you, Uncle Sam?]
 * [http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x09 On the Early History and Impact of Unix: Tools to Build the Tools for a New Millenium] <!-- also https://cscie26.dce.harvard.edu/~dce-lib113/reference/unix/unix2.html http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/book-pdf/CHAPTER%209.pdf -->
 * [https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-berkley-software-distribution The Berkeley Software Distribution] - covers the early period, too
 * [https://multicians.org/unix.html Unix and Multics]

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 *** [https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Dennis_Tapes/ Dennis Tapes] - images of some dusty [[DECtape]]s Dennis found
 * [https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=start The Unix Heritage Wiki]
 * [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/ Dennis M. Ritchie] - see section "Unix papers and writings, approximately chronological"
 ** D. M. Ritchie and K. Thompson, [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/cacm.html ''The UNIX Time-Sharing System''] - the slightly later [[Bell System Technical Journal|BSTJ]] version
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 ** [https://www.levenez.com/unix/unix_a4.pdf The UNIX History tree in pdf, page size A4]
 * [http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/ The UNIX Operating System]
-** [http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/unix-before-berkeley/ A History of UNIX before Berkeley: UNIX Evolution: 1975-1984]
+** Ian F. Darwin, Geoffrey Collyer, [http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/unix-before-berkeley/ ''A History of UNIX before Berkeley: UNIX Evolution: 1975-1984'']
 ** [http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/unix-reader/ A Research UNIX Reader]
 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20221206073744/https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/unixhistory An Oral History of Unix] - Lengthy interviews with Thompson, Ritchie, McIlroy, etc<!--
   http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/oral-history/ alt copy -->
 * [http://squoze.net/UNIX/bltj/ bltj] - the second [[Bell System Technical Journal|BSTJ]] issue on UNIX
 ** [http://squoze.net/UNIX/bltj/06771906.pdf The UNIX System: Preface]

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 ** [http://squoze.net/UNIX/bltj/06771919.pdf The Evolution of UNIX System Performance]
 ** [http://squoze.net/UNIX/bltj/06771925.pdf A Stream Input-Output System]
-* [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/portpapers.html Papers about Unix Portability]
+* [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/portpapers.html Papers about Unix Portability]
-** [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/portpap.html Portability of C Programs and the UNIX System] - the 8/32 port
+** S. C. Johnson, D. M. Ritchie, [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/portpap.html ''Portability of C Programs and the UNIX System''] - the 8/32 port
 * [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/should-we-thank-for-feds-for-the-success-of-unix/ The Unix revolution—thank you, Uncle Sam?]
 * [http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x09 On the Early History and Impact of Unix: Tools to Build the Tools for a New Millenium] <!-- also https://cscie26.dce.harvard.edu/~dce-lib113/reference/unix/unix2.html http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/book-pdf/CHAPTER%209.pdf -->

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 *** [https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Dennis_Tapes/ Dennis Tapes] - images of some dusty [[DECtape]]s Dennis found
 * [https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=start The Unix Heritage Wiki]
-* [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/ Dennis M. Ritchie] - see section "Unix papers and writings, approximately chronological"
+* Warren Toomey, [https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix09/tech/full_papers/toomey/toomey.pdf ''The Restoration of Early UNIX Artifacts'']
-** [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cacm.html The UNIX Time-Sharing System] - the slightly later [[Bell System Technical Journal|BSTJ]] version
+* [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/ Dennis M. Ritchie] - see section "Unix papers and writings, approximately chronological"
-*** [https://dsf.berkeley.edu/cs262/unix.pdf The UNIX Time-Sharing System] - the classic original CACM paper that ignited the spread outside Bell (PDF, but not a scan)
+** D. M. Ritchie and K. Thompson, [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/cacm.html ''The UNIX Time-Sharing System''] - the slightly later [[Bell System Technical Journal|BSTJ]] version
-** [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.html The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System]
+*** Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson, [https://dsf.berkeley.edu/cs262/unix.pdf ''The UNIX Time-Sharing System''] - the classic original CACM paper that ignited the spread outside Bell (PDF, but not a scan)
-** [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/retro.html The UNIX Time-sharing System - A Retrospective]
+** Dennis M. Ritchie, [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/hist.html ''The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System'']
 * [https://cseweb.ucsd.edu//classes/wi19/cse221-a/papers/thompson78.pdf UNIX Implementation] - a Thompson paper giving an overview of the kernel <!--
 https://www.singlix.com/trdos/archive/pdf_archive/thompson78unix.pdf -->

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 * [[BSD Fast File System]]
 * [[Unix dump/restore tape format]]
 ==External links==