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A Brief Synopsis of Unix History - http://kb.indiana.edu/data/acve.html?cust=7748
University of Indiana Knowledge Base article. Summary of Unix versions and links to related entries.

A History of UNIX before Berkeley - http://www.darwinsys.com/history/hist.html
A detailed overview of Unix people and components, 1975-1984.

About the FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/history.html
History and overview from the FreeBSD Handbook.

Bell Labs: Selected Technical Reports - http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html
Several classic Unix papers dating back to 1973. Most reports are Gzipped PostScript, some are in PDF.

CSRG Archive CD-ROMs - http://www.mckusick.com/csrg/
The full source archives of the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group, for sale on a 4-CD set.

Dennis Ritchie's Home Page - http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/
Several historic technical reports, anecdotes, and stories from one of the fathers of Unix.

History of the BSD Daemon - http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/
Various drawings, pictures, and information on the red devil BSD mascot.

History of Unix, Linux, and Open Source - http://www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/history.html
Historical comparison of Unix and the free software movement.

Nick Moffitt's $7 History of Unix - http://crackmonkey.org/unix.html
History paper detailing the people and places involved in developing Unix.

OMU - One Man Unix - http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=335
Steve Hosgood's work with an early 1980s Unix clone. Includes some utility sources.

The Creation of the UNIX Operating System - http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/
Lengthy encyclopedia-quality article from Bell Labs, covering the early days to the present versions.

The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System - http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html
1979 conference paper by Dennis Ritchie. "Concentrates on the evolution of the file system, the process-control mechanism, and the idea of pipelined commands. Some attention is paid to social conditions during the development of the system."

The Unix Heritage Society - http://www.tuhs.org/
Built to foster the "the preservation and maintenance of historical and non-mainstream UNIX systems." Mailing list and archives. Includes early Unix source code, from 1973 through the 1990s.

The Unix System: History and Timeline - http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html
Historical summary and timeline.

The UNIX Time-Sharing System - http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html
Ritchie and Thompson's famous Communications of the ACM paper from 1974. An authoritative and technical overview of the operating system.

Unix History - http://www.levenez.com/unix/
A detailed family tree.

UNIX History Graphing Project - http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/index.html
Lists of release dates and dependencies for the various Unix flavors. A graphical representation of the Unix family tree is planned.

Unix Programmer's Manual, Seventh Edition - http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/
Archives at Bell Labs of the 1979 manual. Troff source and formatted Gzipped PostScript/PDF versions.

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