On Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 10:22 AM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

> I get the historical interest, but in today's world, is there any
> advantage to ksh over bash?  I get that lots of scripts are run
> with /bin/sh and it is nice when that is fast, but aren't the cpus
> fast enough these days that it sort of doesn't matter?
>

Bash is GPLd. Ksh isn't. :)

Warner

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 02:55:55PM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre via TUHS wrote:
> > Hi, Here are some ksh versions...
> >
> > http://cyrillelefevre.free.fr/ksh/
> >
> > ksh86a-toolchest.tar.bz2 314427
> > ksh88c-hpux-9.10.tar.bz2 169413
> > ksh88d-svr4.tar.bz2 132718
> > ksh88f-i18n-irix-6.5.5.tar.bz2 160563
> > ksh88f-irix-6.5.7.tar.bz2 215090
> > ksh88g-sco-unixware7.tar.bz2 195282
> > ksh88h-sco-unixware7.tar.bz2 147194
> > ksh88i-solaris-2.5.tar.bz2 149477
> > ksh88i-solaris-2.6.tar.bz2 159219
> > ksh88i-solaris-2.7.tar.bz2 163976
> > ksh88i-solaris-2.8.tar.bz2 164771
> > ksh93e-sco-unixware7.tar.bz2 542380
> >
> > Le 23/12/2020 ? 08:19, Efton Collins a ?crit?:
> > >here is a link to a ksh version that seems to predate ksh88, msg.c
> > >says "Version 06/03/86a":
> > >https://github.com/weiss/original-bsd/tree/master/local/toolchest/ksh
> > >
> > >I found the link at the bottom of this interesting page:
> > >https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shells/ksh_versions.html
> > >
> > >and this link contains a surprising amount of information on many
> > >shell versions released over the years -
> > >https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shells
> > >
> > >On 12/22/20, Scot Jenkins via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
> > >>Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Hi all, I received an e-mail looking for the ksh-88 source code. A
> quick
> > >>>search for it on-line doesn't reveal it. Does anybody have a copy?
> > >>https://archive.org/details/ATTUNIXSystemVRelease4Version2
> > >>has source for several releases.
> > >>
> > >>click "show all" on the right under "download options",
> > >>the file sysvr4.tar.bz2 has source for ksh88:
> > >>
> > >>from cmd/ksh/sh/msg.c:
> > >>msg.c:    MSG e_version = "\n@(#)Version M-11/16/88d\0\n";
> > >>
> > >>I think this was for x86 PCs.  I haven't tried to build it.
> > >>The date on the files is Jan 25 1993.
> > >>
> > >>scot
> > >>
> > >
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> >
>
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