When did the `dc' command first appear?

Warren Toomey wkt at cs.adfa.edu.au
Tue Oct 26 10:07:44 AEST 1999


In article by Eric Fischer:
> Brian D. Chase writes,
> 
> > Just a quick question.  Was the `dc' command introduced with one of the
> > BSD releases or did it exist in an earlier version of Unix like the 6th or
> > 7th Edition?
> 
> It appears in the First Edition manual, and according to A Quarter
> Century of Unix, it's even older than that.
> eric

There's a binary of dc from either 1st or 2nd Edition in the PUPS Archive:

	-r---wxrw- 0/0            6846 Apr 14 06:50 1973 bin/dc

Warren

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