Computer Science · History of Computing
A topic within History of Computing, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
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Dennis M. Ritchie & Ken Thompson
Describes an operating system built around a small set of orthogonal ideas, such as everything is a file and small programs composed by pipes, that outlived the hardware it was written for.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Eric S. Raymond
Codifies the design habits, do one thing well, write programs to work together, prefer text streams, that Raymond argues make Unix software resilient across decades, and traces where later systems departed from them.