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:
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The conference 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.
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AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal, "Computing Science
and Systems: The UNIX System," 63 No. 6 Part 2, October 1984, pp.
1577-93.
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The Internet at http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html#pipes
On the history of UNIX in general, see
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The Unix Heritage Society site, (http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/TUHS/)
and the
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PDP-11 Unix Preservation page. (http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/PUPS/)
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Seminal papers referenced by Dennis Ritchie at http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html#pipes
On Dennis Ritchie, see http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/
On Ken Thompson, see http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/
On Multics, see http://www.multicians.org/history.html
On The Open Group, see ???
On the Santa Cruz Organization, see
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On the history of computing, see
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Oxford University's Virtual Museum of Computing
(http://archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk/other/museums/computing.html)
On using UNIX, there are many books available at
book stores and librarys. Also see www.bell-labs.com/books/ . A few books
worth mentioning are:
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Thomas and Yates, A Under's Guide to the UNIX
System, 2d Edition, Osbone McGraw-Hill, Berkeley, CA 1985.