From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:17:04 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Etymology of the open file table? In-Reply-To: References: <20160322040004.GB25603@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: <20160323201704.GB30832@mercury.ccil.org> Dan Cross scripsit: > Thanks, all. I kind of figured it was something like that.... For general information on CTSS, the grandparent of Unix, see . 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 I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider. --Bilbo to Smaug