Multics guide from 1969 shows that Multics already had a primitive shell (in later editions called "command processor"), had a concept of user working directory, and two editors "edm" and "qed". The command "runcom" was used to run scripts, ASCII files that contain shell commands
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In 1987, G. William May published a comparison of Multics I/O redirection with UNIX in "Multics Technical Bulletin". The results showed issues with the Multics design (and in the broader picture, why UNIX won)
