[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Bob Eager]

On Mon, 08 Jan 2024 23:59:00 +0000, Dan Cross wrote:

> Yeah.  Tcsh was more or less requisite on a BSD-ish system for a long
> while.  At least for interactive use; "program with Bourne,
> type with Joy" was a motto back in those days.
> 
> I stuck with tcsh for a long while until I started working at Google.
> Then, network effects made me switch to Bash.  These days, it's mostly
> zsh everywhere.

We never had a PDP-11 with separate I and D space, so we never really had 
room for BSD on the 11. Once we got the VAX machines, we ran it. I've been 
using it ever since (now on FreeBSD).

I moved to csh when it first came out and have never changed. At some 
point csh was linked to tcsh, and I do use the extra facilities.

For scripting, I use sh (not bash). Or I use REXX.