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From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mash
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:42:33 +0100
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>>I seem to recall the original Inferno shell being quite limited.  The 
>>new man pages are encouraging :-)

it's still there as tiny/sh, because on small devices a simple command interpreter
is useful for maintenance but one might begrudge the extra flash and memory
that plumper shells consume.