Microsoft Releases A New Monad Command Shell Beta

Posted by timothy on Monday September 20, 2004 @02:32PM from the sneer-or-consider dept.

Watercooler Warrior writes "Slashdot originally broke the news that a new Microsoft command shell was in the works when a reader noticed a suspicious job posting by Microsoft India. Today Microsoft released the first really usable version of the shell (codenamed Monad) to beta testers - and anyone who carefully reads the WinHEC slides about Monad will find how to join the beta and get a peek at it. The shell looks like a bunch of old-school Unix and Perl hackers were given free rein to do what they wanted with the .NET framework, and from what is known about the backgrounds of the Monad developers this is probably pretty close to the truth."

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Google by kajoob · 2004-09-20 14:34 · Score: 5, Funny

Google has a new command shell coming out as well; the name? Gonad.

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1. Re:Google by bluephone · 2004-09-20 20:45 · Score: 5, Funny
  
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