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By JT Pennington

381: Shell origins

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Published December 17, 2020 5:00am

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This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by TarsnapHeadlinesThe Origin of the Shell

CTSS was developed during 1963 and 64. I was at MIT on the computer center staff at that time. After having written dozens of commands for CTSS, I reached the stage where I felt that commands should be usable as building blocks for writing more commands, just like subroutine libraries...

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