From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 20:48:12 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] PWB contributions
In-Reply-To: <201511090139.tA91dCvK006536@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
References: <201511090139.tA91dCvK006536@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
Message-ID: <20151109014812.GB4546@mercury.ccil.org>

Doug McIlroy scripsit:

> PWB did not create make; Stu Feldman did it in research.

Which is why, according to Google folklore, the desktop he
was set up with on the first day did not have a TAB key.

> PWB did make SCCS. I believe it also originated cico,
> find and eval. 

The Mashey shell, obviously, and -mm.  Wikipedia claims that
cpio, expr, xargs, yacc, and lex first appeared outside
the Bell Labs boundary in the PWB release, though at least
the last two were certainly not PWB-specific.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
If you understand, things are just as they are.
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.