9th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles | October 1983
ACM SigOps Hall of Fame award 2005. A classic study of experience building large systems, distilled into a cookbook of wisdom for the operating systems researcher. As time has passed, the value of these hints has only grown and the range of systems to which they apply enlarged.
ACM Operating Systems Rev. 15, 5 (Oct. 1983). A slightly revised version was reprinted in IEEE Software 1, 1 (Jan. 1984), pp 11-28