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<h2 id="features">Features</h2> <p>Notable firsts in PWB include: </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/facts/Source_Code_Control_System/v85GIeBx">Source Code Control System</a>, the first UNIX <a href="/facts/Revision_control/pxCmFXqK">revision control</a> system, written by <a href="/facts/Marc_Rochkind/TL0j2Tro">Marc J. Rochkind</a></li> <li>The <a href="/facts/Remote_job_entry/x0usMfke">remote job entry</a> batch-submission system</li> <li>The <a href="/facts/PWB_shell/DbnGb8A5">PWB shell</a>, written by <a href="/facts/John_R._Mashey/wcYGMBxM">John R. Mashey</a>, which preceded <a href="/facts/Stephen_R._Bourne/x7p7ALJH">Steve Bourne</a>'s <a href="/facts/Bourne_shell/wUCh3Qkl">Bourne shell</a></li> <li>The restricted shell (<i>rsh</i>), an option of the PWB shell, used to create widely-available logins for status-checking, trouble-reporting, but made safe by restricting commands</li> <li>The <a href="/facts/Troff/NtPk6T03">troff</a> <i>-mm</i> (memorandum) macro package, written by John R. Mashey and Dale W. Smith</li> <li>Utilities like <a href="/facts/Find_(Unix)/bg18ASlI">find</a>, <a href="/facts/Cpio/ylj9ArS3">cpio</a>, <a href="/facts/Expr/QCIoHt60">expr</a>, all three written by Dick Haight, <a href="/facts/Xargs/nXhrdwXI">xargs</a>, <a href="/facts/Grep/PdGQeFfD">egrep</a> and fgrep</li> <li><a href="/facts/Yacc/sXp5I7Tw">yacc</a> and <a href="/facts/Lex_programming_tool/elaAUUIz">lex</a>, which, though not written specifically for PWB, were available outside of Bell Labs for the first time in the PWB distribution</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Research_Unix/5oWmUdwo">Research Unix</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Writer%27s_Workbench/kXkvnu4m">Writer's Workbench</a> ("WWB")</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li>Ivie, Evan L. (October 1977), "The Programmer's Workbench — A Machine for Software Development", <i>Communications of the ACM</i>, 20 (10), <a href="/facts/Communications_of_the_ACM/Ix1DvEAk">CACM</a>: 746–753, <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F359842.359856">10.1145/359842.359856</a>, <a href="/facts/S2CID_(identifier)/ldJsHa2Y">S2CID</a> <a href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:17647129">17647129</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/unixad.html">Unix ad mentioning PWB</a>, from a 1981 issue of <a href="/facts/Datamation/w70KTvsN">Datamation</a> (on <a href="/facts/Dennis_Ritchie/I1yu1UWU">Dennis Ritchie</a>'s homepage)</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060924132637/http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/usdl/">PWB distributions</a>, from the Ancient UNIX Archive</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>T.A. Dolotta; J.R. Mashey (1976). An introduction to the Programmer's Workbench. Proc. 2nd Int'l Conf. on Software Engineering. pp. 164–168. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>John R. Mashey (2004). Languages, Levels, Libraries, and Longevity Archived 2009-04-30 at the Wayback Machine. ACM Queue 2 (9). <a href="http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039532" target="_blank">http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039532</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>T.A. Dolotta; R.C. Haight; J.R. Mashey (1978), "Unix Time-Sharing System: The Programmer's Workbench" (PDF), Bell System Tech. J., 57 (6): 2177–2200, doi:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1978.tb02148.x, S2CID 21869088, archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-10-09, retrieved 2012-12-14 <a href="https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/articles/bstj57-6-2177.pdf" target="_blank">https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/articles/bstj57-6-2177.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Fiedler, Ryan (October 1983). "The Unix Tutorial / Part 3: Unix in the Microcomputer Marketplace". BYTE. p. 132. Retrieved 30 January 2015. <a href="https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-10/1983_10_BYTE_08-10_UNIX#page/n133/mode/2up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-10/1983_10_BYTE_08-10_UNIX#page/n133/mode/2up</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>T.A. Dolotta; R.C. Haight; J.R. Mashey (1978), "Unix Time-Sharing System: The Programmer's Workbench" (PDF), Bell System Tech. J., 57 (6): 2177–2200, doi:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1978.tb02148.x, S2CID 21869088, archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-10-09, retrieved 2012-12-14 <a href="https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/articles/bstj57-6-2177.pdf" target="_blank">https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/articles/bstj57-6-2177.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Fiedler, Ryan (October 1983). "The Unix Tutorial / Part 3: Unix in the Microcomputer Marketplace". BYTE. p. 132. Retrieved 30 January 2015. <a href="https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-10/1983_10_BYTE_08-10_UNIX#page/n133/mode/2up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-10/1983_10_BYTE_08-10_UNIX#page/n133/mode/2up</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Dennis M. Ritchie. "Unix Advertising". former Bell Labs Computing and Mathematical Sciences Research. Archived from the original on 2 January 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2014. <a href="https://archive.today/20130102004255/http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/unixad.html" target="_blank">https://archive.today/20130102004255/http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/unixad.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Software List for UNIX System V" (PDF). 1 September 1983. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 June 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2014. <a href="https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/licenses/acprice83.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/licenses/acprice83.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>