Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!mit-vax!eagle!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: osh Message-ID: <617@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Jun-83 22:04:38 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.617 Posted: Fri Jun 10 22:04:38 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jun-83 10:51:28 EDT References: <3093@root44.UUCP> Organization: RLG Corp., Reston, VA Lines: 10 Dennis Ritchie informs me (I presume he won't mind if I mention this) that it was, indeed, the V6 shell; it was there because of the Bell port of UNIX to the Interdata. Since the Bourne shell requires so much of the system to work (including, for example, backing up fairly arbitrary instructions after a segmentation violation), he wanted a shell that would work even if the kernel wasn't perfect. Guy Harris RLG Corporation {seismo,mcnc,we13,brl-bmd,allegra}!rlgvax!guy