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

[Warner Losh via TUHS]

Was DR the weird "satellite dish building" on 120th?

Warner

On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 12:57 PM Marc Rochkind via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org>
wrote:

> WH was indeed Whippany. DR was Denver (Westminster, CO, actually).
>
> Marc
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 10:40 AM Alex Bochannek via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Arnold Robbins via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> writes:
> >
> > > Hello all.
> > >
> > > The CL memo was interesting, in a way.  The notations are clearly
> > > much more verbose than the standard shell, and I found that a little
> > > off-putting.
> > >
> > > The memo's references refer to Marc Rochkind's 2dsh --- Marc, whatever
> > > happened to that? Are source and or the memo for it available
> somewhere?
> > >
> > > Also it refers to a shell by Blewett and arder called Parser. Anyone
> > > have that memo?
> >
> > I received the scans of the 2dsh and the Parser memos. The Parser scan
> > is pretty poor quality, but legible. What's interesting is that Parser
> > makes reference to both the TOPS-20/TENEX EXEC as well as the Interlisp
> > history facility. The latter of which is where C-Shell got its
> > inspiration from as well.
> >
> > I noticed the location listed for Marc Rochkind is WH, which suspect was
> > Whippany. But it lists "DR" for Blewett and Rader. What was the DR
> > location of Bell Labs?
> >
> > --
> > Alex.
> >
>