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For more information
On the development of UNIX, see Dennis M. Ritchie, The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974. Copies are available from three sources:
- The proceedings of the Language Design and Programming Methodology Conference at Sydney, Australia, September 1979, published as "Lecture Notes in Computer Science #79: Language Design and Programming Methodology," Springer-Verlag, 1980
- Dennis Ritchie, The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System, and
- AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal, "Computing Science and Systems: The UNIX System," 63 No. 6 Part 2, October 1984, pp. 1577-93. (Not available on the Web)
On the history of UNIX in general, see:
- The Unix Heritage Society site,
- page.
- Seminal technical papers on UNIX at the conclusion of Dennis Ritchie's The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System .
- Peter H. Salus, A Quarter Century of UNIX (Addison-Wesley 1994).
On Dennis Ritchie, see <Dennis Ritchie Home Page>.
On Ken Thompson, see <Ken Thompson>.
On Multics, see <http://www.multicians.org/history.html>.
On The Open Group, see <http://www.opengroup.org>.
On the Santa Cruz Operation, see <http://www.sco.com>.
On the history of computing, see the Oxford University's Virtual Museum of Computing
On using UNIX, there are many books available at book stores and libraries, such as:
- Arnold Robbins, UNIX in a Nutshell: System V Edition, 3d Edition, O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, CA 1999
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