Files in this area (updated 08-Mar-2026)


1eUnix_creation_restoration.pdf
	First edition Unix: Its creation and restoration by Warren Toomey 01-Jan-2010

2dsh.pdf
	2dsh - An Experimental Shell for Connectining Processes with
	Multiple Data Streams by Marc J. Rochkind 01-Aug-1980.  Scanned
	and recovered by Arnold Robbins

BSTJ (directory)
	The Bell System Technology Journal Volume 57 July-August 1978
	pgs 1897-2304.	"The Unix Time-Sharing System"  There are 21
	papers, plus the preface by many different authors describing
	the system itself, as well as subsystems and some important
	deployment schemes.

Email_No_Aliases/
	"Electronic Mail Without Aliases" by Jane Elliott and Mike Lesk
	Details the state of e-mail at Bell Labs in 1980.
	
Four_Generations_of_Portable_C_Compiler_DM_Kristol_19860609.pdf
	Four Generations of Portable C Compiler by David Kristol (unknown
	original publication date).  Steve Johnson's Portable C Compiler
	(PCC) evolved through three further generations (PCC2), QCC,
	and RCC) that have improved its speed, generality, and code
	quality.  The C front end PCC2, QCC, and RCC is identical and
	is is essentially the same front end as that used in PCC except
	that it has better' error checking and greater robustness. The
	principal differences, then, are in the respective code generation
	strategies, and they are the topic of this paper.

Interprocess_Communications_in_the_8th_Edition_Unix_Ritchie+Presotto_USENIX_SUMMER_19850612.pdf
	Interprocess Communication in the Eighth Edition Unix System
	by Dave Presotto and Dennis Ritchie 12-June-1985

lions_PCCpass2_jun1979.pdf
	A report on the second pass of the Portable C Compiler, written
	by John Lions in June 1979. Many thanks to Al Kossow who scanned
	this in from the original paper document.

Spi15c.pdf
	A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution by Diomidis Spinellis
	(unknown original publication date).  This paper follows the
	evolution of the Unix operating system is made available as
	a version-control repository, covering the period from its
	inception in 1972 as a five thousand line kernel, to 2015 as a
	widely-used 26 million line system.

TuningUnixLex_Jacobson_USENIX_Winter_1987_pp163_164.pdf
	"Tuning UNIX Lex" by Van Jacobson is the abstract from a talk
	he gave at the Winter 1987 USENIX conference, although the
	paper is not in the proceedings and may be lost to time.

ugly.pdf
	"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy" by Rob Pike
	is a talk Rob gave in Copenhagen during a conference over 8-9
	September 2001.   These are his slides.

unix_cacm74.pdf
	This is the paper that started it all: "The UNIX Timesharing
	System" by Dennis and Ken as published in CACM Volume 17,
	Number 7, July 1974

Unix_Users_Talk_Notes_Jan73.pdf
	A seminar for UNIX Users on 15-Jan-1973