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Unix is a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system first developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs around 1970. Richie, working with Brian Kernighan, later rewrote the system and also developed the C programming language—making Unix the first portable OS in the history of computing. They accomplished this after receiving a more powerful PDP-11 computer from Bell, in exchange for the promise of developing text-processing software, which later evolved into the first electronic typesetting system. Lots of firsts.

It didn’t take long for the development of the Unix operating system to splinter into the academic world, primarily at UCB. This opened the door to numerous innovations, notably the TCP and IP protocols (TCP/IP), which supplanted the original design of the ARPANET and morphed into the Internet as we know it today.

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• 1.An Overview of the Unix Operating System

  From Lucent/Bell Labs, an overview of core design principles behind the Unix operating system. [250]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/tutorial.html
  Author:
  Staff
  [3]
  Reviewed:Thursday, April 14th, 2005 @ 4:29 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  An Overview of the Unix Operating System osreferenceunix
   

• 2.Unix Docs and Tools

  Articles, documents and tools for Unix users and programmers. Including such topics as crontab, DNS, man pages, editing with ed, sed, pico, and vi, sendmail, file permissions, kernel compilation, perl regular expressions and much more. [1366]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Unix/
  Author:
  Ring of Saturn
  [1]
  Reviewed:Sunday, July 3rd, 2005 @ 3:42 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Unix Docs and Tools configeditorskernelunix
   

• 3.The Art of Unix Programming

  An online version of the classic book on Unix programming. Much more than just a programmer's text, it presents the history, culture and philosophy behind the Unix operating system. [1059]

  ★★★★★
  URI:http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/
  Author:
  Eric S. Raymond
  [2]
  Reviewed:Tuesday, April 26th, 2005 @ 8:56 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  The Art of Unix Programming cultureebookosprogrammingunix
   

• 4.Unix Timeline

  A family tree of the various versions and implementations of Unix. The author calls it a "simplified diagram", judge for yourself. Many Unix links as well, and some other timelines. [262]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.levenez.com/unix/
  Author:
  Eric Lévénez
  [1]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 15th, 2005 @ 5:41 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Unix Timeline historytimelineunix
   

• 5.Design Overview of 4.4BSD

  The 4.4BSD kernel provides four basic facilities: processes, a filesystem, communications, and system startup. This chapter outlines where each of these four basic services is described in the book. [261]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/design-44bsd/book.ht...
  Author:
  Marshall Kirk McKusick
  [2]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 15th, 2005 @ 4:13 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Design Overview of 4.4BSD bsdkernelosunix
   

• 6.Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix

  From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable: A history of Berkeley Unix from its beginnings at Bell Labs through the Internet revolution and the Open Source movement. [260]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html
  Author:
  Marshall Kirk McKusick
  [2]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 15th, 2005 @ 4:08 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix bsdhistoryinternetopen sourceunix
   

• 7.BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code

  How Berkeley hackers built the Net's most fabled free operating system on the ashes of the '60s -- and then lost the lead to Linux. [259]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://archive.salon.com/tech/fsp/2000/05/16/chapter_2_part_one/
  Author:
  Andrew Leanord
  [2]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 15th, 2005 @ 3:08 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code bsdlinuxopen sourceosunix
   

• 8.The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System

  A brief history of the early development of the Unix operating system, concentrating on the evolution of the file system, the process-control mechanism, and the idea of pipelined commands. [251]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html
  Author:
  Dennis Ritchie
  [2]
  Reviewed:Thursday, April 14th, 2005 @ 3:13 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System historyunix
   

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