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The Lions Book. John Lions. "After 20 years, this is still the best expostion of the workings of a 'real' operating system." --Ken Thompson
The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System. Dennis M. Ritchie.
web-based source code browser for historic unix versions with comments from the gurus
The first edition of the Unix Programmer's Manual, dated November 3, 1971, is available here in image, Postscript, and PDF format. Return with us to the golden days of yesteryear!