ref: 78b557e3c702ffd106f4b764d3371b38bf3f818c
parent: c28de5a9a7c597697edf3050e1e0c7efccc5129c
author: stanley lieber <stanley.lieber@gmail.com>
date: Sun Apr 19 18:16:56 EDT 2020
fqa8.ms: add quote from doug about origin of rc nomenclature
--- a/fqa8.ms
+++ b/fqa8.ms
@@ -60,6 +60,18 @@
.R
.ihtml h2
+.DS
+.I
+rc was a startup script from very early times in Unix, shortened, as
+Ken was wont to do, from runcom, the nearest thing CTSS had to a
+shell\(emit could run up to six prespecified commands in background.
+The name runcom came to be applied to the scripts as well as to their
+interpreter.
+.R
+\(em Doug McIlroy
+.DE
+.html - <br />
+
The
.CW rc
shell was written by