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Date:      Sun, 26 May 2002 16:18:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sh sh.1
Message-ID:  <200205262018.g4QKIC2b094091@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020526110330.A15389@FreeBSD.ORG>
References:  <200205251218.g4PCIRf58586@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020526165618.C6316@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20020526110330.A15389@FreeBSD.ORG>

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<<On Sun, 26 May 2002 11:03:31 -0700, "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> said:

> It might be more appropriate to say "A bourne shell first appeared as .Nm in
> ..."

It's not *a* Bourne Shell, it's *the* (Stephen R.) Bourne Shell --
although I'd be curious to find the earliest reference in which
Bourne's Shell is called thus.

-GAWollman

PS: Just don't make me look at the source code again... >shudder<!

--
Garrett A. Wollman   | [G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of
wollman@lcs.mit.edu  | chemical processes.  Genes do not make ``novelty-
Opinions not those of| seeking'' or any other complex and overt behavior.
MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA|         - Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)

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