[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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