(15-01-2017, 07:41 PM)jkl Wrote: Depends. Things like a "shell" were already available before Multics, but they used a teletype instead of a live display.

Indeed but I was just referring to the historical origin of the one on Unix.

There's this link in the show notes who goes over many of inspirations:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!...AznHm0jdUJ

(15-01-2017, 07:41 PM)jkl Wrote: Also, Unix is not based upon Multics, except that Unix inherited a couple of general ideas from it.

Sorry, that's my mistake, I should have said "was Unix predecessor"

(15-01-2017, 07:41 PM)jkl Wrote:

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FreeBSD does, "the BSDs" actually don't (a variant of the ksh is more popular with them).

Actually, I've had a hard time researching this.
The open ksh being released only in the 2000 a lot of the things pointed out in the wrong direction.
I was looking for which shells were default for the root account and the user account on different BSDs.