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#1
The first is “The UNIX Time-Sharing System”, a paper published in 1974 by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson presenting the main aspects of the UNIX Operating System with its file system, I/O operations, process synchronization, and the shell implementation.
https://andreybleme.com/2020-12-17/the-unix-time-sharing-sytem-summary
#2
10 years later Dennis M. Ritchie publishes “The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System” describing the UNIX file system, the process-control mechanism, and the idea of pipelined commands. This paper also presents the social events that influenced the system’s evolution.
https://andreybleme.com/2020-12-29/the-evolution-unix-time-sharing-sytem-summary
An interesting fact that you might not be aware of, is that Dennis M. Ritchie is the guy who created the C programming language. In both these papers, you can see his contributions to UNIX, and the moment when the UNIX team decided to rewrite its assembler using Clang.
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