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Originally released in 1988 for OS/2 1.x as a commercially supported clone of the '''Berkeley C shell''' alongside 20 other utilities that made using the shell and porting Berkeley C script files to OS/2 easier. The Berkeley C shell is a shell that was originally supplied as an alternative shell for the | Originally released in 1988 for OS/2 1.x as a commercially supported clone of the '''Berkeley C shell''' alongside 20 other utilities that made using the shell and porting Berkeley C script files to OS/2 easier. The Berkeley C shell is a shell that was originally supplied as an alternative shell for the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), it had a batch language that was much more [[C]] like than what the traditional [[UNIX]] shells offered, the original C Shell however uses a slow interpreter for executing its batch files while the Hamilton version actually uses a built in compiler. | ||
The original release for OS/2 1.x allows you to use 64k heaps for command lines and pipes, meaning that you can have command lines considerably longer than the 256 character limit of the [[CMD.EXE]]. | The original release for OS/2 1.x allows you to use 64k heaps for command lines and pipes, meaning that you can have command lines considerably longer than the 256 character limit of the [[CMD.EXE]]. | ||
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* 1990 1.04 | * 1990 1.04 | ||
==Links | ==Links== | ||
* Tom Yager: [https://hamiltonlabs.com/archives/OS-2-Unix-Style-Tom-Yager-BYTE-Magazine-Feb-1990.pdf OS/2, Unix Style: Hamilton C Shell and MKS OS/2 Toolkit provide Unix-like shells for OS/2] - | * Tom Yager: [https://hamiltonlabs.com/archives/OS-2-Unix-Style-Tom-Yager-BYTE-Magazine-Feb-1990.pdf OS/2, Unix Style: Hamilton C Shell and MKS OS/2 Toolkit provide Unix-like shells for OS/2] - Byte magazine (Feb 1990) | ||
* Scott Richman: [http://hamiltonlabs.com/archives/Examining-the-Hamilton-C-Shell-Scott-Richman-Dr-Dobbs-Journal-Jan-1991.pdf Examining the Hamilton C Shell: Unix power for OS/2] - | * Scott Richman: [http://hamiltonlabs.com/archives/Examining-the-Hamilton-C-Shell-Scott-Richman-Dr-Dobbs-Journal-Jan-1991.pdf Examining the Hamilton C Shell: Unix power for OS/2] - Dr. Dobb's (Jan 1991) | ||
==License and availability== | ==License and availability== | ||
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==Author & publisher== | ==Author & publisher== | ||
* | *Hamilton Laboratories | ||
* | *Nicole Hamilton | ||
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Revision as of 22:43, 31 January 2017
Originally released in 1988 for OS/2 1.x as a commercially supported clone of the Berkeley C shell alongside 20 other utilities that made using the shell and porting Berkeley C script files to OS/2 easier. The Berkeley C shell is a shell that was originally supplied as an alternative shell for the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), it had a batch language that was much more C like than what the traditional UNIX shells offered, the original C Shell however uses a slow interpreter for executing its batch files while the Hamilton version actually uses a built in compiler.
The original release for OS/2 1.x allows you to use 64k heaps for command lines and pipes, meaning that you can have command lines considerably longer than the 256 character limit of the CMD.EXE.
Versions
- 1989 1.0
- 1990 1.04
Links
- Tom Yager: OS/2, Unix Style: Hamilton C Shell and MKS OS/2 Toolkit provide Unix-like shells for OS/2 - Byte magazine (Feb 1990)
- Scott Richman: Examining the Hamilton C Shell: Unix power for OS/2 - Dr. Dobb's (Jan 1991)
License and availability
- Closed source commercial software, the OS/2 version of the Hamilton C Shell was discontinued in 2003, the Windows version is still being sold.
- Original list price in 1990 was 350 USD.
Author & publisher
- Hamilton Laboratories
- Nicole Hamilton