On Friday, 30 December 2022 at 19:59:31 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Over and over, I won the "straight bourne shell only" battle.  So I agree,
> if you want /bin/sh to work, Bourne shell for the win.

Agreed.

> For a login shell, bash is my shell of choice.  It's bloated but I'm
> typing this on a 5 year old Lenova X1 Carbon with 16GB of memory and
> 4 cores and it's fine.  It was fine a 133mhz Pentium.

I've been using bash since 16 MHz i386s.  People told me that it was
bloated, but somehow I didn't notice.

Somehow this reminds me of the expansion of EMACS: Eight Megabytes And
Continually Swapping.  8 MB?  Nowadays?  It shows how old these
prejudices are.  Now my emacs processes have round 30 MB of resident
memory and are dwarfed by 2 GB web browsers.  bash comes in at a
little over 2 MB, just not worth talking about.

Greg
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