Dion wrote:
On 22/08/09 10:29, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
Can you throw light on the demise of the "unix shell"?
Marghanita
I'm guessing 'contextually', that you're asking about the demise of the
original Thompson shell that shipped with Unix? Since replaced by Bash,
Csh et al?
Possibly, my memory of the idea behind Unix Shells...was similar to the
concept of the Java machine and possibly the Browser, KDE and Gnome. Wine would
be another candidate - ie you would implement MSWindows as a shell, running on
Linux.
No one seems to be suggesting that KDE or Gnome are shells. I am trying to
figure out
where Bash etc fits into Linux. Does Gnome/KDE run in a Bash shell?
Marghanita
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