[davidwtbuxton]

I found this article via Wikipedia as a result of wondering why unix shells are named so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_(computing)

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[davidwtbuxton]

From the article:

> That program, which he described as a “shell” around the computer’s whirring innards, gave inspiration—and a name—to an entire class of software tools, called command-line shells, that still lurk below the surface of modern operating systems.