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Struggles between vendors to set Unix standard
The Unix wars were a struggle between vendors to set a standard for the Unix operating system in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Unix warsA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: A history of engineering and science in the Bell systemThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: obitools: a unix‐inspired software package for DNA metabarcodingCited 1,088 times
- Go sideways: History of UnixA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Unix-likeA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
📚 Books worth reading
A history of engineering and science in the Bell systemAT & T Bell Laboratories. Technical Publication Dept. · 1975
Digital planetGeorge Beekman, Ben Beekman · 2011
Understanding Computers Today and TomorrowDeborah Morley · 2003
A History of engineering and science in the Bell SystemAT & T Bell Laboratories. Technical Publication Dept. · 1975
Geeks bearing giftsTed Nelson · 2009
Listening Through And Jammer Alignment SystemsE R Taylor, AT & T Bell Laboratories. Technical Publication Dept. · 1945
Introduction to making very big booksUnited States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pensions · 2011
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