[TUHS] "A New Command Language for UNIX and Related Systems", Sturzenbecker CL (1982)

Arnold Robbins via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Wed Feb 25 06:46:34 AEST 2026


Hi.

Alex Bochannek via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> The document mentions that
> CL was implemented for Unix Release 4.0, which also made me wonder how
> widely that release was used inside the Bell System.

I think it was used pretty widely. I've described this before, check
the archives, but circa 19833-1984 I did some contract programming
for Southern Bell on a PDP-11/70 running Unix 4.0.  It was the
standard version of Unix inside the Bell System.

Arnold


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