SD: Text Shell

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Subject: SD: Text Shell
From: "Matt Cooper" <mnemonicdevice@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 18:54:45 PDT
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You guys misunderstood me.  =)  The shell is compiled to ASM and then to 
machine code on the computer.  It's just like shells for Usgard today.  
My aim was to make it easier to code shells by creating a scripting 
language.

The SGML/XML language is NOT what I had in mind.  First of all, that 
would require a massive amount of kernel overhead to support shell 
functions that many shells would not even use.  Second of all, I don't 
want the shell to be interpreted.. too slow =)  Third of all is the 
space concern.  Everyone says "Oh, we have 512k."  Well, when everyone 
says it, that 512k quickly becomes 0k, as in 0k free memory.

--Matt Cooper / mnemonicdevice@hotmail.com

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