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Today I ended up on an article by Christian Lee = Seibold about the origin of shells [1]. Coincidentally the article explained how the =E2=80=9Crc=E2=80=9D files = came to be and why they=E2=80=99re called =E2=80=9Crc=E2=80=9D: = everything started with RUNCOM and Multics. An excerpt from the article: =3D=3D=3D=3D Unix Shells have had a very long history, and it all starts with a = program written by Louis Pouzin for the MIT CTSS Operating System, = called RUNCOM (which stood for =E2=80=9Crun commands=E2=80=9D). It = executed commands from a file, called =E2=80=9Ca runcom=E2=80=9D. = According to Kernighan and Ritchie[1], =E2=80=9Crc=E2=80=9D = configuration files from Unix descended from this. Tom Van Vleck also = gives origins of Unix=E2=80=99s use of =E2=80=9Crc=E2=80=9D to RUNCOM = [2], and notes that the first time he read the term =E2=80=9Cshell=E2=80=9D= was from Multics documentation created by Doug Eastwood. According to = Louis Pouzin, he coined the word =E2=80=9Cshell=E2=80=9D. =3D=3D=3D=3D Well, now I know=E2=80=A6 [1] = https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/auragem.space/~krixano/ShellHistory-Unix.pdf= =E2=80=94 Michelangelo