We'd already caught a glimpse of it on Toshiba's new TG02 handset, but SPB os/2 has now gotten
fully sanctioned with SPB Mobile Shell 5.0, which will be receptive to consumers and OEMs
alike. The big news with this one is that SPB has added ...
(more)An nameless reader writes "Steve Bourne, the creator of the Bourne shell, or sh, talks about
its history as the default Unix shell of Unix Version 7. Bourne worked on the shell in 1975 and
said the process took no more than 6 months. Sh ...
(more)An nameless reader writes "The widely used Bourne-Again Shell (BASH) version 4.0 is out. The
new major release fixes several remaining bugs in the 3.x releases, and introduces a bunch of
new features. The most notable new face are associative arrays, ...
(more)Joe MacDonald writes "The earliest UNIX shell I encountered was the Bourne shell on a
SPARCStation 2 at my university. As with many students of my generation, prior to that nearly
all of my hazard to command line interfaces was some variant of DOS. I ...
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