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Ask HN: Why is it called a shell?

2 pointsby david4096about 11 years ago

Would anyone like to offer how or why the command line interpreter came to be known as a shell?

1 comment

apples2applesabout 11 years ago

Came from Unix. A "shell to the kernel" that only exposed the outer layer.

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