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- From: rick@rodan.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: What rc stands for in .cshrc
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 18:59:40 -0500
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- References: <neonakis.725835611@news.forth.gr> <id.E6CW.9X3@ferranti.com> <1993Jan4.233203.10174@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM>
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- Summary: definitive answer
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- From research!dmr Sat Oct 31 16:58:15 1981
- Subject: rc etymology
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- The name 'rc' comes from RUNCOM, which was the rough equivalent
- on the MIT CTSS system of what Unix calls shell scripts. Of course
- RUNCOM derives from 'run commands.'
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- Yet another piece of evidence for my thesis that Unix is a modern
- version of CTSS. (I said it ca. 1973, so 'modern' is questionable.)
- Any who used '. SAVED' will have no trouble conquering the Shell.
- Noel I. Morris, do you still live?
- Your indefatigable historian,
- Dennis Ritchie
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