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From: david@indetech.UUCP (David Kuder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Early history of UNIX and shells
Message-ID: <2838@emerald.indetech.uucp>
Date: 22 May 89 03:00:11 GMT
Reply-To: david@indetech.UUCP ()
Organization: Independence Technologies, Inc. Fremont, CA
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Recently I had reason to reminisce about using UNIX on a PDP-11/70 a few
years ago.  One of the things that that machine had was a shell called
the "Mashey" shell.  Or did it?  The general question of when was a shell
first written and used on a UNIX box came up.  Any explanation (with
juicy details) would be appreciated.