Web Directory

» 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

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

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

» 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

» 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/

» 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/

» 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

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

» Nick Moffitt's $7 History of Unix
   History paper detailing the people and places involved in developing Unix.
   http://crackmonkey.org/unix.html

» 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

» 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

» 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

» 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/

» The Unix System: History and Timeline
   Historical summary and timeline.
   http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html

» 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

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

» 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/