On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 06:47:12PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 2 October 2014 18:01, Konstantin Olchanski <olcha...@triumf.ca> wrote: > > > > Tcsh: 1981 (file-completion feature merge with csh) > > > > But go 1 step beyound wikipedia ... > > You didn't follow the links in the reference section > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg/net.sources/BC0V7oosT8k/MKNdzEG_c3AJ >
In fact, I did go there and read it. It is a patch to the BSD /bin/csh. Useless for those without access to sources of /bin/csh. When I started using SGI IRIX in 1992 we did not have the sources for /bin/csh, so no tcsh for us until version 6.0 came out a few years later. If you had tcsh before version 6.0, buy yourself a cookie. I only saw the BSD sources for the first time when 4.4BSD-Lite was released on CDs around 1994-1995. Still have those CDs, still remember the excitement and the joy. > > I remember that all the profs at college had tcsh instead of csh because > before the VAX11/750 with BSD 4.2 they had all been using tops-20 and hated > basic unix lack of features that tcsh gave them. > Well, in Soviet Russia we did not have no VAXes. We had PDP-11 clones that booted RT-11SJ from 8" floppies and ran Tetris. (the normal tetris, not the "slowed down for Westerners" version you get from "google play"). > > The link on bash is at > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg/gnu.announce/hvhlR1Vn1P0/NYwp-4_0CaUJ > I am too bored by the history of tcsh already. Maybe some other time. -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
