[TUHS] Plan 9 from outer space ?

[Doug McIlroy]

I'll keep it going. rc was a startup script from very early
times in Unix, shortened, as Ken was wont to do, from runcom,
the nearest thing CTSS had to a shell--it could run up to
six prespecified commands in background. The name runcom
came to be applied to the scripts as well as to their
interpreter.

Doug

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It wasn't my intention.

-rob

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:12 AM Ken Thompson <ken at google.com> wrote:
>
> rob,
> you shouldn't have shut down this discussion.