https://e-sygoing.link Latest links in the History category en-us Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:58:37 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5676321-unix-history A detailed family tree. Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:05:05 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5676321 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5676308-history-of-the-bsd-daemon Various drawings, pictures, and information on the red devil BSD mascot. Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:19:30 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5676308 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5676319-about-the-freebsd-project History and overview from the FreeBSD Handbook. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:14:10 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5676319 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5676307-csrg-archive-cd-roms The full source archives of the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group, for sale on a 4-CD set. Sun, 08 Dec 2024 03:52:11 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5676307 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5676310-dennis-ritchies-home-page Several historic technical reports, anecdotes, and stories from one of the fathers of Unix. Mon, 25 Nov 2024 03:52:00 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5676310 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5676311-nick-moffitts-7-history-of-unix History paper detailing the people and places involved in developing Unix. Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:15:38 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5676311 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5676314-the-unix-time-sharing-system Ritchie and Thompson's famous Communications of the ACM paper from 1974. An authoritative and technical overview of the operating system. Sat, 09 Mar 2024 12:34:33 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5676314 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5676313-the-unix-heritage-society 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. Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:41:03 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5676313 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5676309-the-evolution-of-the-unix-time-sharing-system 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." Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:21:26 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5676309 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5676312-unix-programmers-manual-seventh-edition Archives at Bell Labs of the 1979 manual. Troff source and formatted Gzipped PostScript/PDF versions. Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:09:33 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5676312