Computer History Notes - Herong's Tutorial Notes - v3.13, by Herong Yang
What Is the Bourne Shell
This section provides a quick introduction of the Bourne shell that became the default shell on Unix systems.
What Is Bourne Shell? - Bourne Shell is a Unix shell introduced by Stephen Bourne in 1977. The Bourne shell replaced the Thompson shell and became the default shell of Unix systems.
The Bourne shell has the following main features:
The picture below shows the paper on the Bourne shell written by S. R. Bourne: "An Introduction to the Unix shell"
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2002 - .NET Framework Developed by Microsoft
1995 - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor Created by Rasmus Lerdorf
1995 - Java Language Developed by Sun Microsystems
1991 - WWW (World Wide Web) Developed by Tim Berners-Lee
1991 - Gopher Protocol Created by a University of Minnesota Team
1984 - X Window System Developed a MIT Team
1984 - Macintosh Developed by Apple Inc.
1983 - "Sendmail" Mail Transfer Agent Developed by Eric Allman
1979 - The Tcsh (TENEX C Shell) Developed by Ken Greer
1978 - Bash (Bourne-Again Shell) Developed by Brian Fox
1978 - The C Shell Developed by Bill Joy
►1977 - The Bourne Shell Developed by Stephen Bourne
Bourne Shell Command Line Examples
Bourne Shell Script File Examples
1977 - Apple II Designed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
1976 - vi Text Editor Developed by Bill Joy
1974 - Internet by Vinton Cerf
1972 - C Language Developed by Dennis Ritchie
1971 - FTP Protocol Created by Abhay Bhushan
1970 - UNIX Operating System Developed by AT&T Bell Labs