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by NY_hudson 3986 days ago
I like looking at old stuff from Bell Labs and Xerox Parc. If you dig around, you can find some tremendous papers about designing systems. For example, search around for books and papers in the 70's and 80's on Unix, the Alto, Ethernet, etc...and when you find an author you like, check the reference and find more like that. Checking the articles listed in a wikipedia article's reference is also a good starting point for this sort of thing. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet