8 Aug
2018
8 Aug
'18
9:20 p.m.
From: Nemo
I will, no doubt, be flayed on this list but I tend to
use "=>".
Hey, if it works for you, go for it.
After the Nth time I got confused as to exactly which machine I was
typing to, I hacked the shell on my V6 Unix to read its prompt from
".profile". (Very clean, only one added line of code in the existing
code.)
Noel
8 Aug
8 Aug
10:01 p.m.
New subject: Origins of shell prompt suffixes % $ > #
Caveat emptor: I haven't read all the messages on this thread. :)
But... I remember the VMS prompt being "$"... maybe some ancestry since VMS
dates back to 1970?
Gilles
2018-08-08 17:20 GMT+02:00 Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>:
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From: Nemo
I will, no doubt, be flayed on this list but I
tend to use "=>".
Hey, if it works for you, go for it.
After the Nth time I got confused as to exactly which machine I was
typing to, I hacked the shell on my V6 Unix to read its prompt from
".profile". (Very clean, only one added line of code in the existing
code.)
Noel
9 Aug
9 Aug
2:29 a.m.
New subject: Origins of shell prompt suffixes % $ > #
* But... I remember the VMS prompt being "$"... maybe some ancestry since VMS
dates back to 1970?
VMS development started in 1975. It didn’t see the light of day until the VAX hardware
was released in 1977.
RSX used > (sometimes MCR>).
TOPS-10 used a period (.) at the monitor level and asterisk at the user level.
RT-11 also used the period.
2:30 a.m.
New subject: Origins of shell prompt suffixes % $ > #
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Gilles Gravier <gilles(a)gravier.org> wrote:
Caveat emptor: I haven't read all the messages on
this thread. :)
But... I remember the VMS prompt being "$"... maybe some ancestry since
VMS dates back to 1970
Be careful .. VMS 1.0 was released in the late 1970s, we had Vax serial #1
at CMU - I want to say 1976 or 77. Dave's Command Language (DCL - renamed
DEC Command Language by DEC marketing) was originally part of an earlier
RSX and yes used $ as the prompt.
But numerous systems used $ and many of the other punctuation chars as a
prompt.
We'll have to ask srb, but I'm fair confident in stating VMS had no bearing
on his choice of a command prompt (I'm fairly sure VMS was not release by
the time he came to the Labs). I would have expected if it was taking it
from another system (which is possible) it would have been on the British
ones in use at Cambridge before he came to BTL.
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2:51 a.m.
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On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 2:31 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Gilles Gravier <gilles(a)gravier.org>
wrote:
TOPS-20 used @. RSTS/E used Ready.
Warner
Caveat emptor: I haven't read all the
messages on this thread. :)
But... I remember the VMS prompt being "$"... maybe some ancestry since
VMS dates back to 1970
Be careful .. VMS 1.0 was released in the late 1970s, we had Vax serial #1
at CMU - I want to say 1976 or 77. Dave's Command Language (DCL - renamed
DEC Command Language by DEC marketing) was originally part of an earlier
RSX and yes used $ as the prompt.
But numerous systems used $ and many of the other punctuation chars as a
prompt.
We'll have to ask srb, but I'm fair confident in stating VMS had no
bearing on his choice of a command prompt (I'm fairly sure VMS was not
release by the time he came to the Labs). I would have expected if it was
taking it from another system (which is possible) it would have been on the
British ones in use at Cambridge before he came to BTL.
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8:50 a.m.
New subject: Origins of shell prompt suffixes % $ > #
I too have not seen all of the messages on this thread.
I always thought the $ was used for the shell prompt as a persistent reminder that time on
the system costs money: As process accounting will assist in your monthly billing.
Bill Corcoran
On Aug 8, 2018, at 4:20 PM, Gilles Gravier
<gilles@gravier.org<mailto:gilles@gravier.org>> wrote:
Caveat emptor: I haven't read all the messages on this thread. :)
But... I remember the VMS prompt being "$"... maybe some ancestry since VMS
dates back to 1970?
Gilles
2018-08-08 17:20 GMT+02:00 Noel Chiappa
<jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu<mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>>:
From: Nemo
I will, no doubt, be flayed on this list but I tend to
use "=>".
Hey, if it works for you, go for it.
After the Nth time I got confused as to exactly which machine I was
typing to, I hacked the shell on my V6 Unix to read its prompt from
".profile". (Very clean, only one added line of code in the existing
code.)
Noel
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