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From: cjc@ulysses.att.com (Chris Calabrese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Standard Shells On System V.4
Summary: ksh is a new one
Message-ID: <12689@ulysses.att.com>
Date: 15 Mar 90 20:15:51 GMT
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In article <8704@xenna.Xylogics.COM> loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) writes:
> 
> Encore's UMAX4.2 (loosely based upon 4.2BSD) included the BRL
> version of the SysV3.2 /bin/sh.  
> Actually, ksh appears to be the 1985 version (which is about the time when
> the BRL shell was incorporated into UMAX4.2).  Oops.

My understanding (as told by Dave Korn) is that early beta's of sVr4
had whatever ksh Summit happened to have on hand.  The official
release includes ksh88 (I think revision D).
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