The Unix Heritage Society

The Unix Heritage Society's aims include:

• The preservation and maintenance of historical and non-mainstream UNIX systems;
• The further development of existing UNIX systems; and
• The continual fostering of the Unix community spirit.

UNIX is a trademark of X/OPEN

Affiliated Groups and Projects

The Unix Heritage Society is really a union of people who share some or all of the aims listed above. Several affiliated groups have their own web pages:

• The PDP UNIX Preservation Society looks after PDP-11 versions of UNIX.
• The Quasijarus Project aims to extend 4.3BSD to run on nearly all Vaxes
• 2.11BSD brings the features of 4.4BSD to the PDP-11s with 22-bit addressing.

Heritage Society Services

• Join the Unix Heritage Society mailing list
• Obtain access to the Unix Archive: source code license required.
• Obtain a free UNIX source license from SCO's web site.
• Use the Unix Archive once access has been granted.

Information on UNIX and Unix's Heritage

• The History of Unix
• Unix Books
• Anecdotes about Unix
• On-line Man Pages

Other Web Pages

Here are some other web pages which are related to Unix and to the aims of The Unix Heritage Society:

User Groups

• AUUG
• USENIX

Personal Web Pages

• Dennis Ritchie's home page
• Ken Thompson's home page
• Greg Lehey's Old Iron

Unix Hardware Platform Pages

• Kees Stravers' VAX Archive
• An archive of Sun 3 material.