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  1. @lattera

    That's not the Bourne shell.

    That's the Almquist shell, first posted to comp.sources.unix in 1989 as v19i001 to v19i008. #KennethAlmquist was at the University of Washington.

    The Bourne shell was released a decade earlier, and was copyrighted AT&T work.

    No current BSD has the Bourne shell in base, because of the 1980s AT&T copyright problems.

    #FreeBSD and #NetBSD have the Almquist shell as sh and #OpenBSD has one of the Korn shell variants.

    #UnixShells