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- Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/16/what_is_unix/ 135 comments
- Unix: An Oral History https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/unixhist/finalhis.htm#attic 25 comments
- Unix didn't use to support '#!', a brief history https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ExecAndShebangHistory 62 comments
- Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo 43 comments
- Origins and History of Unix, 1969-1995 (2003) http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch02s01.html 36 comments
- The History of the Design of Unix’s Find Command (1995) http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/find-history 73 comments
- The truth about C and Unix history http://www.rutschle.net/tech/c_unix.shtml 77 comments
- Unix history repository https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo 6 comments
- An Oral History of Unix http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/unixhistory 4 comments
- The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs 11 comments
- Early History of Unix: Unix Is Born and the Introduction of Pipes (1997) http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~lib113/reference/unix/unix2.html 6 comments
- History of Xenix – Microsoft's Forgotten Unix-Based Operating System https://fossbytes.com/xenix-history-microsoft-unix-operating-system/ 117 comments
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- Today in History, Brought to You by UNIX https://akr.am/blog/posts/today-in-history-brought-to-you-by-unix 5 comments unix
- Unix History Repository https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-make 4 comments historical , unix
- An Oral History of UNIX http://gromnitsky.users.sourceforge.net/lit/an-oral-history-of-unix/ 2 comments book , historical , unix
- The History of Unix, Rob Pike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs 10 comments historical , unix , video
- History Of Xenix — Microsoft's Forgotten Unix-based Operating System https://fossbytes.com/xenix-history-microsoft-unix-operating-system/ 5 comments historical , unix
- Unix: An Oral History https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/unixhist/finalhis.htm#attic 3 comments linux
- Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo 37 comments linux
- Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo 2 comments compsci
- UNIX History https://www.levenez.com/unix/ 3 comments linux
- An Oral History of Unix https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mahoney/unixhistory 3 comments bsd
- Unix directory hierarchy history http://www.pixelstech.net/article/1477109665-unix-directory-hierarchy-history 4 comments programming
- Linux goes down in history: a young UNIX http://www.sbp-romania.com/blog/2015/10/25/linux-goes-down-in-history-a-young-unix.aspx 7 comments linux
- Unix History https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/unix_history-simple.svg 13 comments linux
- The history of grep, the 40 years old Unix command https://medium.com/@rualthanzauva/grep-was-a-private-command-of-mine-for-quite-a-while-before-i-made-it-public-ken-thompson-a40e24a5ef48 4 comments commandline
- The history of dotfiles in unix https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/r58wgwwn9jp 40 comments linux
- Unix Shell: History and Trivia http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/08/history-trivia.html 6 comments bash
- Learn about the UNIX history between line addressing in Vim https://nikodoko.com/posts/vim-ranges 5 comments linux
- History of Public Access Unix (and GNU/LINUX) Systems https://rawtext.club/~cmccabe/pubnixhist 9 comments commandline
- The History of Unix, Rob Pike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs 4 comments programming
- I can't believe it's not Unix! on the history of the operating system http://media.bemyapp.com/cant-believe-unix/?utm_source=bemyapp&utm_medium=reddit&utm_content=&utm_campaign=mediawebsite 3 comments programming
- On History and Unintended Consequences: A lesson in Unix hidden files. https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/r58wgwwn9jp 136 comments programming
- Software archaeology into the history and semantics of ctime on Unix http://blog.plover.com/unix/ctime.html 2 comments programming
- The history (sort of) of service management in Unix https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ServiceManagementHistory 2 comments bsd
- The UNIX Evolution: An History of Innovation Reaches a 20-Year Milestone http://www.briefingsdirecttranscriptsblogs.com/2016/04/the-unix-evolution-history-of.html 23 comments linux
- Request for peer review: Unix history part for free book "FreeBSD for Linux users" http://www.elderlinux.org/temp/draft_penguin_guide.pdf 20 comments freebsd
- Those who don't know their UNIX "history" are doomed to re-type it http://billlaboon.com/those-who-dont-know-their-unix-history-are-doomed-to-re-type-it/ 11 comments commandline
- Shell History: Unix. "Unix Shells have had a very long history, and it all starts with a program written by Louis Pouzin for the MIT CTSS Operating System, called RUNCOM ... According to Kernighan and Ritchie, 'rc' configuration files from Unix descended from this." [PDF, 6pp] https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/auragem.space/~krixano/ShellHistory-Unix.pdf 2 comments bsd
- Okay, you degenerates! Let's see how much you really know about the history of Unix. This quiz appeared in ;login: magazine, July 1984. http://spiffy.ci.uiuc.edu/~kline/stuff/unixquiz.html 14 comments programming