From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Again about etymology: rc
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 12:19:56 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160325011956.GA3140@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-e0dd3f63-baa1-4c8c-9a96-128bdb17f897-1458760805118@3capp-mailcom-lxa01>
On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 20:20:05 +0100, Rocky Hotas wrote:
> About the History of Unix, I was wondering with another guy why the
> rc script has that name.
I'm surprised nobody else has commented that we saw this about 3
months ago. Tom Van Vleck wrote about CTSS:
> Louis wrote a disk loaded program called RUNCOM that read command
> lines from a file, substituted arguments into the command, and
> requested the supervisor to run them, and then return control to
> RUNCOM. This is a shell-like function.
>
> ...
>
> Revised command processing, RUNCOM, and . SAVED are documented in
> the second edition CTSS manual.
> http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/ctss/CTSS_ProgrammersGuide_Dec69.pdf
Our assumption at the time was that the "rc" comes from this program.
The entire message is in the TUHS archives (29 December 2015, Subject:
" CTSS user interface?". Let me know if you can't find it.
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-25 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-23 19:20 Rocky Hotas
2016-03-23 19:30 ` Dan Cross
2016-03-23 19:38 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-03-23 19:53 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2016-03-23 19:57 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-03-23 21:14 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2016-03-24 9:59 ` Rocky Hotas
2016-03-24 6:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-25 1:19 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2016-03-23 22:06 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-24 0:09 ` Clem Cole
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