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[guy at rlgvax.UUCP]

Dennis Ritchie informs me (I presume he won't mind if I mention this) that
it was, indeed, the V6 shell; it was there because of the Bell port of
UNIX to the Interdata.  Since the Bourne shell requires so much of the
system to work (including, for example, backing up fairly arbitrary
instructions after a segmentation violation), he wanted a shell that would
work even if the kernel wasn't perfect.

		Guy Harris
		RLG Corporation
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