Notes

Selected Works of Unix

Dennis M. Ritchie and Kenneth Thomspson, "The UNIX Time-Sharing System," Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (Association for Computing Machinery, 1973 Oct 15-17). This is the original Unix paper.

Dennis M. Ritchie and Kenneth Thomspson, "The UNIX Time-Sharing System (Revised)," The Bell System Technical Journal 57, no. 6, part 2 (AT&T, 1978 Jul-Aug). Also available online at http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html (AT&T, accessed 2004 Nov 20). This paper has a note that tells how it is related to the original 1973 Unix paper.

1. Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray. Computer: A History of the Information Machine (Basic Books, 1996).

2. Paul E. Ceruzzi, A History of Modern Computing, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003).