0x4d6165 (Julie)
0x4d6165@transfem.social
hey why do we call shells (bash, ksh, powershell, etc.) shells?
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@theking @0x4d6165 no. it comes from multics supposedly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_shell
The name “shell” for a command-line interpreter and the concept of making the shell a user program outside of the operating system kernel were introduced in Unix’s precursor Multics.
I will say the multics page doesnt really show anything? at least i havent found it yet. Closest I have is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
It is also the first to have a command processor implemented as ordinary user code – an idea later used in the Unix shell.
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https://www.multicians.org/shell.html (no idea if this is like, trustworthy in an academic sense)
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