/sys/doc/ Documentation archive
Bell Labs
Rob Pike:
- The Blit: A Multiplexed Graphics Terminal by Rob Pike.
- A Concurrent Window System by Rob Pike.
- Window Systems Should Be Transparent by Rob Pike.
- Structural Regular Expressions by Rob Pike.
- Notes on Programming in C by Rob Pike.
- A tutorial on the Sam editor language by Rob Pike.
- UTF-8 History - The tale of how Rob Pike and Ken Thompson invented UTF-8 and converted Plan 9 to use it everywhere in a few days.
- Face the Nation by David L. Presotto and Rob Pike.
- Squeak: a Language for Communicating with Mice by Luca Cardelli and Rob Pike (Not to be confused with Alan Kay's 'squeak').
- Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (aka utah2000 or utah2k) by Rob Pike (Russian translation).
- The Hideous Name by Rob Pike and P.J. Weinberger.
Brian Kernighan:
- Timing Trials, or, the Trials of Timing: Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Languages by Brian W. Kernighan and Christopher J. Van Wyk.
- Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan.
Ken Thompson:
Others:
- Upas - a simpler approach to network mail by David L. Presotto.
- The amazing Duff's Device by Tom Duff! - While not invented while at Bell Labs, Duff went on to work there shortly afterwards and was closely involved with the labs for a long time.
- Squinting at Power Series by Douglas McIlroy.