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Aucbvax.4857 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Sat Oct 31 17:08:13 1981 rc etymology >From CSVAX.dmr@Berkeley Sat Oct 31 16:58:15 1981 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.'

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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