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From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Of old shells and pipe symbols
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Date: 14 Jun 88 20:23:17 GMT
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	"Before the Bourne shell there was the Mashey shell.  It
	supported ^ for the pipe symbol not |.  This was a very
	primitive shell ... For example wild card were expanded in a
	separate process, yuck."

It sounds like the /bin/sh distributed with Unix v6, but that shell
accepted both '^' and '|'.  In the early 1970s, terminals on which it
was easy to key '|' were not widespread.  The classic terminal, the
TTY33, had no way to key '|', '{', '}', '~', or '`'.  (Or lower case
letters, for that matter.)

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (andrew%tekecs.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]