Kern shell was a Posix shell, here is some detail from 1994 ... Canadian Posix and X Open Portability Guide specialist Mortice Kern Systems Inc has won its third account with IBM Corp. This time Big Blue has licensed *Mortice Kern’s InterOpen/XPG4 Posix shell (commands) and utilities* for version 2 of the VM/ESA 3090 mainframe operating system released last week. The standards have already been applied to MVS; an OS/400 implementation is under way. Meanwhile, Waterloo, Ontario-based Mortice Kern has begun a standards watch information service to be delivered as and when needed. The first bulletin notes that US government standards for Posix.2 have completed their review and comment period with no problems, have passed from the National Institute of Standards to the US Secretary of Commerce and are expected to be passed in November. The National Institute is evaluating Federal Standards Posix.2 test suite providers. The XCUTS test suites for X/Open Co Ltd’s XPG4 specifications under development at Palo Alto, California firm Mindcraft Inc have been renamed VSC. Mortice Kern has also poached former SunSoft Inc Europe manager Doug Miller from Information Foundation as InterOpen Account Manager, West Coast Division.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > Yes, the company is Kern but the shells are bash, bourne, c, z, not all > available in the first release; there is no kern shell. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי > נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר > > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf > of Mike Schwab <000005962a42dc49-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> > Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2025 3:26 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: OMVS > > External Message: Use Caution > > > IBM > Licensed Material - Property of IBM > 5694-A01 Copyright IBM Corp. 1993, 2011 > (C) Copyright *Mortice Kern* Systems, Inc., 1985, 1996. > (C) Copyright Software Development Group, University of Waterloo, 1989. > > All Rights Reserved. > > U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights > Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by > GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. > > IBM is a registered trademark of the IBM Corp. > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM Paul Gilmartin < > 0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 18:12:01 +0100, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: > > > ... > > >> How does Kern shell compare with Bourne shell and POSIX shell? > > >> > > >> A quick Google search for "Kern shell" returns mostly pages about > > >> psychology or thermal engineering. > > > > > >Obvious typo. Was it funny? > > > > > More than I care to know about heat exchangers. > > > > >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KornShell > > > > > And I doubt that I mistyped. I copied "Kern shell" with mouse from > > an earlier ply and pasted directly into the query string. > > > > And there seems to be a passing reference in an IBM page: > > < > > > https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=procedures-accessing-unix-system-services-zos-unix-shell > > > > > > > -- gil > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
