Origins
Work on the Bourne shell initially started in 1976. First appearing in Version 7 Unix, the Bourne shell was preceded by the Mashey shell. 展开

C shell
Bill Joy, the author of the C shell, criticized the Bourne shell as being unfriendly for interactive use, a task for which Stephen Bourne himself … 展开

• Comparison of command shells
• Unix shell 展开

DMERT shell
Duplex Multi-Environment Real-Time (DMERT) is a hybrid time-sharing/real-time operating system developed in the 1970s at Bell Labs Indian Hill location in Naperville, Illinois uses a 1978 snapshot of Bourne Shell "VERSION … 展开

The Bourne shell was once standard on all branded Unix systems, although historically BSD-based systems had many scripts written in csh. As the basis of POSIX sh syntax, Bourne shell scripts can typically be run with Bash or dash on Linux or other 展开