Information on History from the Linux category

A 3D Animation of Linux Source Code Development - Renderings of dependencies in the kernel source; MPEG format.

A Brief History of Unix - History of Unix and causes for its popularity. "This document is designed to give people with no previous UNIX experience some sense of what UNIX is. This document will cover the history of UNIX and an introduction to UNIX."

A Brief Synopsis of Unix History - University of Indiana Knowledge Base article. Summary of Unix versions and links to related entries.

A Complete History of Tux - A history so far of Tux the Linux penguin including how the creature was named and created.

A History of UNIX before Berkeley - A detailed overview of Unix people and components

About the FreeBSD Project - History and overview from the FreeBSD Handbook.

Bell Labs: Selected Technical Reports - Several classic Unix papers dating back to 1973. Most reports are Gzipped PostScript

Controversy - Compromise

CSRG Archive CD-ROMs - The full source archives of the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group

Dennis Ritchie's Home Page - Several historic technical reports

Fortran 66 standard - In PDF format.

Fortran 90 Quiz - Ten multiple-choice questions

Fortran II manual - Manual for the 1958 version of Fortran created by IBM.

Fortran Quiz - Fortran 77 test by Arlene Guest.

Fortran Versions - A brief history of Fortran versions 1 to Fortran 95.

Fortran: The First Successful High Level Programming Language - Short essay by Mary Bellis

Free Code Graphing Project - Successor to Rusty Russell's Linux Kernel Graphing Project (lgp)

Henry Baker Ada Papers - Ada papers available for WWW browsing.

History of Linux - Ragib Hasan's outline

History of the BSD Daemon - Various drawings

History of Unix - Historical comparison of Unix and the free software movement.

IBM 704 Fortran Manual - Manual for the first version of Fortran (1956).

IRC Networks and Server List - This page provides IRC Server/Network related URLs

Linux for the PowerPC - A summary of a part of Macintosh and Linux history

Linux History - Annotated posts from 1991 made by Linus Torvalds to comp.os.minix.

MFC Programmer's Sourcebook - Online community for Windows programmers. A vast collection of a growing free MFC code with a discussion forum and some extras

Netsplit.de - Keeps statistics on users

Nick Moffitt's $7 History of Unix - History paper detailing the people and places involved in developing Unix.

OMU - One Man Unix - Steve Hosgood's work with an early 1980s Unix clone. Includes some utility sources.

Resources - Ada Articles in Trade Magazines.

SECTION00031000000000000000 - Fortran 77

The Creation of the UNIX Operating System - Lengthy encyclopedia-quality article from Bell Labs

The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System - 1979 conference paper by Dennis Ritchie. "Concentrates on the evolution of the file system

The History of UNIX - Chapter-length article by Ronda Hauben on "how the need to automate telephone support operations in the U.S. in the late 1960s and the early 1970s nourished the birth and development of the UNIX operating system and how academic computer science cont

The Linux Operating System - A consise abridged history of Linux. The author expands his website to discuss other aspects of Linux such as how it compares with Microsoft products and how the Linux development process works.

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

The Unix System: History and Timeline - Historical summary and timeline.

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.

Unix History - A detailed family tree.

UNIX History Graphing Project - Lists of release dates and dependencies for the various Unix flavors. A graphical representation of the Unix family tree is planned.

Unix Programmer's Manual - Archives at Bell Labs of the 1979 manual. Troff source and formatted Gzipped PostScript/PDF versions.

WATFOR's Silver Anniversary - Describes the history of WATFOR

Wikipedia: Fortran - An encyclopedia description of Fortran history with many links to programming terms.