From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Etymology of the open file table?
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:17:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160323201704.GB30832@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W5hLex53N0s-yAia-B-R83Gz9vrQwCz7rygh2CCj+OAzw@mail.gmail.com>
Dan Cross scripsit:
> Thanks, all. I kind of figured it was something like that....
For general information on CTSS, the grandparent of Unix, see
<http://www.multicians.org/thvv/7094.html>.
Unfortunately, all it says about RUNCOM is:
Louis Pouzin also invented RUNCOM for CTSS. This facility,
the direct ancestor of the Unix shell script, allowed users
to create a file-system file of commands to be executed, with
parameter substitution. Louis also produced a design for the
Multics shell, ancestor of the Unix shell.
That's a great site for everything Multics-related, and has a lot of
ancestral stuff that we've mostly heard about from the Bell Labs side.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
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alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-23 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-22 2:07 Dan Cross
2016-03-22 2:23 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-03-22 2:28 ` Larry McVoy
2016-03-22 2:56 ` Warren Toomey
2016-03-22 3:02 ` Dan Cross
2016-03-22 3:02 ` Dan Cross
2016-03-22 4:00 ` John Cowan
2016-03-22 4:11 ` Warner Losh
2016-03-23 19:48 ` Dan Cross
2016-03-23 20:17 ` John Cowan [this message]
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