Shell history

[Ed Gould]

>That old Version 6 UNIX shell was called the Mashey Shell, I believe,
>after its creator John Mashey.

Close, but not quite.  The V6 shell, as Mashey points out in his
first-hand account of this history, was a Thompson shell.  The PWB
(Programmer's Work Bench - a branch of V6 within the Labs) shell
was the one known as the Mashey shell.

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