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Author: info at smallinnovations dot nl
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Newbies threaten our purity :-)
On 28-05-17 03:43, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 05:02:12PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote:
>> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> bash wasn't the original shell.
>>
>> I really did start on Version 6 Unix. I think Version 7 was out by then,
>> but the NYIT Graphics Lab didn't ever switch their PDP-11s to it.
> I think it was version 3 I started on, on a PDP-11 with about 48K or
> RAM. I'm not sure any more. It was in 1974 or early 1975.
>
> -- hendrik
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I started on Unix (SunOS) in 1989 and if remembering correctly you had
the choice between csh, Bourne shell and Korn shell. Most shellscripts
were build for Bourne shell because most examples used that. :-)

Grtz

Nick