XOS: An Operating System for the X-Tree Architecture. - Barton P. Miller; David L. Presotto (ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., 1981)

PUBLISHING: A Reliable Broadcast Communication Mechanism. - Michael L. Powell; David L. Presotto (SOSP, 1983)

DEMOS/MP: The Development of a Distributed Operating System. - Barton P. Miller; David L. Presotto; Michael L. Powell (Softw. Pract. Exp., 1987)

Interprocess Communication in the Ninth Edition Unix System - David L. Presotto; Dennis Ritchie (Softw. Pract. Exp., 1990)

Plan 9. - David L. Presotto (USENIX Workshop on Microkernels and Other Kernel Architectures, 1992)

The Organization of Networks in Plan 9. - David L. Presotto; Phil Winterbottom (USENIX Winter, 1993)

The Use of Name Spaces in Plan 9. - Rob Pike; David L. Presotto; Ken Thompson; Howard Trickey; Phil Winterbottom (ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., 1993)

Plan 9 from Bell Labs. - Rob Pike; David L. Presotto; Sean Dorward; Bob Flandrena; Ken Thompson; Howard Trickey; Phil Winterbottom (Comput. Syst., 1995)

Inferno. - Sean Dorward; Rob Pike; David L. Presotto; Dennis Ritchie; Howard Trickey; Phil Winterbottom (COMPCON, 1997)

Inferno security. - David L. Presotto (COMPCON, 1997)

The Inferno™ operating system. - Sean M. Dorward; Rob Pike; David L. Presotto; Dennis M. Ritchie; Howard W. Trickey; Philip Winterbottom (Bell Labs Tech. J., 1997)

Protium, an Infrastructure for Partitioned Applications. - Cliff Young; Yagati N. Lakshman; Tom Szymanski; John H. Reppy; David L. Presotto; Rob Pike; Girija J. Narlikar; Sape J. Mullender; Eric Grosse (HotOS, 2001)

Security in Plan 9. - Russ Cox; Eric Grosse; Rob Pike; David L. Presotto; Sean Quinlan (USENIX Security Symposium, 2002)

Practical large-scale latency estimation. - Michal Szymaniak; David L. Presotto; Guillaume Pierre; Maarten van Steen (Comput. Networks, 2008)