The Origin Of The Shell

davecb writes: "Louis Pouzin, the inventor of datagrams, just contributed an article to Multicians.org on the creation of the first shell, "runcom," on CTSS and later Multics." Multicians is one of the coolest sites I've seen -- if you think the odd Atari 2600 is retro, look out. They also provided information on the Multics scheduler a little while ago.