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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: File descriptors
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Date: Fri, 29-May-87 13:52:34 EDT
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> 	Modern shells have goto and exit, as well as if/then/else, for,
> while, and the kitchen sink built in.  This makes shell scripts run faster.
> It also makes them not fit into a 64k address space.

If you leave the kitchen sink out, you can fit it into a 64k address
space.  I've seen the Bourne shell and the PWB/UNIX 1.0 or Mashey
shell both run on a non-split-I&D-space PDP-11.  (The Bourne shell,
BTW, doesn't have "goto" built in; it's a "goto"less language.)
	Guy Harris
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