On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 15:39 -0700, JJB wrote:
On 04/27/16 15:18, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, JJB jack@internetguy.net said:
Interesting. Back in 1980 we called /bin/sh the Mashey shell. It did not have command substitution or other things we now take for granted. Bourne did that for us. So there's a version or two missing in history...
Check the history here:
This history might be that of a particular lineage. CB UNIX and PWB UNIX existed in the gap between 1975 and 1979.
PWB is the one I started with back in '77ish. Running on Dec 11/70.
When SCO's Unix, which had an IBM-compatible Cobol compiler available, became available I installed on PC and over time converted our Cobol development folks to compile, debug, test on the PCs and then install on mainframe through the PDP 11/70 emulating 3270 terminal into mainframe, IIRC. Maybe by then it was a VAX 11/780.
When Bourne's shell came around it was a big boost for me - added a lot.
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Bill