- Origins & History of Unix (1969-1995)
- A Quarter Century of UNIX
- A visual timeline of Unix
- The Unix Heritage Society
- This paper on the Evolution of Operating Systems has a section on Unix
- A talk on the history of UNIX: Unix Architecture Evolution from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2018 FreeBSD Important Milestones and Lesson…
- Unix at 5s
- Rob Pike’s History of Unix talk isn’t directly related to what we cover in class, but there are some interesting things about the early days of Unix.
- An 2003 interview with Dennis Ritchie
- A 1982 film from Bell Labs The UNIX System: Making Computers More Productive
- [A COMMENTARY ON THE SIXTH EDITION UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM[()] (includes source code)
- Old UNIX source code - I haven't looked around too much, but there are some C files that implement several UNIX commands.
- "Dissecting linux kernel code" or "That syscall shouldn't give that error code!"
- VIDEO: Unix vs Linux
- Differences between Linux & UNIX
- From 1992, Linux is Obsolete
The links here are for informational purposes only. I don't necessarily agree with the point of view of every article.
- The Year 2038 Problem
- Revisiting the “Unix Philosophy” in 2018 talks about some old ideas from Unix that are still relevant today.
- Does UNIX live up to the UNIX philosophy? Maybe Unix is not an acceptable Unix.
Unix was a prank by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan