ConstantThought

I have read a number of Unix histories which must have used this 1979 paper as a source, but I only just read the paper itself recently. It is by Dennis Ritchie himself (he is one of the fathers of Unix), and discusses the very birth of Unix from an inside perspective. While information on the hardware is not enormously interesting anymore, the bits about its incremental development and the birth of some things we take completely for granted now (modern pipelining) are fascinating.