The History of the First Computer Shell

Date:
Fri, 07 Oct 2022 23:56:08 GMT

Description:
BASH? PowerShell? It all traces back to 1963. And the work of an amazing Frenchman, CTTS, and Multics.

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Powerful, Command Line computer interfaces have been around for what seems like forever. Interfaces where you can run multiple commands, one after another (in a batch) where you can have simple scripts to tie those commands together.

That sort of Shell comes in so many forms from SH and BASH on UNIX-like (and Linux) systems to COMMAND.COM and PowerShell on Windows.

The text Shell is everywhere. And has been for longer than most can even remember.

But it had to start somewhere . Someone had to make the first Shell.

This is that story.

And that story starts with a man. His name is Louis Pouzin. The Man

Louis Pouzin was born, in 1931, in a small town in almost the
smack-dab-middle of France: Chantenay-Saint-Imbert. Louis Pouzin. With a sweet mustache. Photo credit: Jrmie Bernard

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Link to news story: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-history-of-the-first-computer


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