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[The original author has permitted reproduction and distribution of this book.](http://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=publications:quarter_century_of_unix)
Interesting paper by the late Roger Faulkner.
The [talks page](https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-09/restoration-early-unix-artifacts) has links to slides & a broken video link.
The good thing about Unix, is when it screws up, it does so very quickly (2011)
(unixhorrorstories.blogspot.com)
Introduction To The uNIX Operating System by S. M. Walters (January 1982) [Z-80]
(bitsavers.trailing-edge.com)
I saw this paper referred to from the paper linked on the [Portals in 4.4 BSD](https://lobste.rs/s/svvmiv/portals_4_4bsd_1995) story - it's a pretty interesting idea on how to implement higher-level features on top of more basic filesystem operations.