Re: [TUHS] Origin year of BSD csh?

Thanks everyone for the answers, esp. to Mary Ann for the definitive dates. My story is similar to most everyone else's. I was exposed to csh on 4.1 BSD but was so horrified by the syntax that I preferred to do without job control and use the Bourne shell. Later on when I was at Georgia Tech we got the BRL dist and I used Ron's job control shell. I wrote a csh-style history mechanism for it and backported that and the job control to the V7 sh and posted diffs to USENET so that people without a SV license could benefit. the csh-history-for-sh stuff as soon as I got ksh with vi editing mode and have never looked back. Circa 1990 I banged on the bash/readline code to make its vi mode more like ksh's. How well I remember Bournegol and how happy I was when I saw that SVR2 had gotten rid of it. With respect to history in the terminal, the Bell Labs guys did that by making the terminal smarter, with the Blit. I had one but the load it put on our poor vax 11/780 was awesome. Arnold