[buug] history of UNIX(/LINUX) and random notes and related from 2005-07-19 BUUG meeting

[Michael Paoli]

history of UNIX(/LINUX) and random notes and related from 2005-07-19 BUUG meeting

book(s) ... for some reason I was thinking 30 years, rather than 25, but
this is the book I had in mind:
A Quarter Century of UNIX by Peter H. Salus
I've not read it, but what I've read/heard about it sounds quite good.

I do have some other historical UNIX stuff (an old _Bell Systems
Technical Journal_ issue that has a good chunk of some early UNIX
history/background in it)., and some of the volumes of the UNIX
Programmer's Manual (Unix Version 7 man pages, circa 1979), and some
other UNIX documents of that vintage.  Many of those older documents
are also available on-line, e.g.:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/
There are also emulators and old images of UNIX version 7, and some
versions a bit earlier (and perhaps slightly later?) that are also
available and can be used/run/explored.  (see also item I have for
The Computer History Simulation Project
further below
)

Also, fgrep -i ing my bookmarks for history, and dropping things out not
reasonably related to UNIX/LINUX/computers/etc., I come up with an interesting
list, ... some of the links may be dead, but if so, there's Google and
such to perhaps find them if they moved, or if they're no longer "live"
and on the Internet, there's:
http://www.archive.org/

Anyway, ... here they are, ... I find first on the list provides a
supurb timeline of UNIX development/history (may also touch on or
reasonably cover LINUX)).

UNIX history (preview)
http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html

Computer Languages History (preview)
http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html

Computer History Museum Home Page
http://www.computerhistory.org/

FastSilicon.com: Video Card History (1996 to 2003-11-09)
http://www.fastsilicon.com/showarticle.php?a=28

HISTORY OF ROBOTS IN THE VICTORIAN ERA
http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html

A History of Apple's Operating Systems
http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/oshistory/

POWER to the people [A history of chipmaking at IBM]
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-powhist/

The History of Programming Languages
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/languageposter_0504.html

The Institute of Internet History - www.ioih.org
http://dogme.burningman.com/~jeremymb/ioih/

A History of the GUI : Page 1
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/gui.ars/1

Linux: Its history and current distributions - A concise history of Linux
http://www.developer.ibm.com/library/articles/schenk1.html

Computer History
http://www.systemtoolbox.com/history.php

The Computer History Simulation Project
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/

octothorpe: history and the real story
http://www.sigtel.com/tel_tech_octothorpe.html