[kwlug-disc] Techcrunch: Microsoft is bringing the Bash shell to Windows 10 [was: Linuxaria: Open Source Has Taken over the Software Industry]

[Steve Izma]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:58:38PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Techcrunch: Microsoft is bringing the Bash shell
>  to Windows 10 [was: Linuxaria: Open Source Has Taken over the Software
>  Industry]
> 
> I would imagine a lot of these errors coming up:
> 
> sed: command not found
> awk: command not found
> tr: command not found
> ....etc
> The ecosystem is much more than just the shell itself.

Some deja vu all over again, here. The MKS Toolkit for DOS solved
the above problems circa 1986, and the solution was still there
when Windows became common a few years later.

	-- Steve

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