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

[Marc Rochkind via TUHS]

Sort of. The building that was there when I got there in 1980 was much
plainer, and behind it was a huge Western Electric factory that made PBXs.
Much later, various parts of the Bell System changed hands, and a
company called Avaya (or something like that) built that building in front.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 1:23 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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:
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>> > 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.
>> >
>>
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