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DRAFT The UNIX Time-Sharing System D. M. Ritchie 1. Introduction UNIX is a general-purpose, multi-user time sharing system implemented on several Digital Eguipment Corporation PDP series machines. UNIX was written by K. L. Thompson, who also wrote many of the command programs. The author of this memorandum contributed several of the major commands, including the assembler and the debugger, The file system was originally designed by Thomson, the author, and R. H. Canaday.

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DRAFT The UNIX Time-Sharing System D. M. Ritchie 1. Introduction UNIX is a general-purpose, multi-user time sharing system implemented on several Digital Eguipment Corporation PDP series machines. UNIX was written by K. L. Thompson, who also wrote many of the command programs. The author of this memorandum contributed several of the major commands, including the assembler and the debugger, The file system was originally designed by Thomson, the author, and R. H. Canaday.
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blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 10:43:29 JST blinry

I've been reading "Unix: A history and a memoir", in which Brian W Kernighan tells the story of how UNIX was developed at the Bell Labs in the 70s. I find it really fascinating!
There's quite some archived material! For example, here's a very early draft manual from 1971: https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/McIlroy_v0/UnixEditionZero-OCR.pdf
It already explains some concepts that, I think, were brand new at the time, but feel very familiar today: Device files, input/output redirection, a deep file system tree, background processes, ...

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