[TUHS] Other Bell Labs shells from the 80s?

Arnold Robbins via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Tue Mar 3 18:01:54 AEST 2026


It took me a while to figure out the references...

Douglas McIlroy via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> > there were a lot of shells out there
>
> Much to the credit of Multics innovation,

Which was that the command interpreter was "just" a user level
program that could be replaced.

> brought to you by Ken's mythical man-month.

The weeks when his wife was on vacation and he turned his
filesystem into an OS.

Did I get them right?

Thanks,

Arnold


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