- Louis Pouzin
Louis Pouzin, (1931 - ) born in Chantenay-Saint-Imbert (
Nièvre ),France , invented the datagram and designed the first packet communications network,CYCLADES . He also created the first forms of command-line interface.His work was broadly used by
Vinton Cerf in his development ofInternet andTCP/IP .Having participated in the design of CTSS, Pouzin wrote a program called
RUNCOM around 1963/64. RUNCOM permitted the execution of contained commands within a folder, and can be considered the ancestor of the command-line interface and shell scripts. Pouzin was, in fact, the one who introduced the term "shell" for the command language used inMultics and defined the principlesGlenda Schroeder atMIT used.Louis Pouzin was given the French order "Chevalier de la
Légion d'honneur " (Knight of the Legion of Honour) onMarch 19 ,2003 .External links
* [http://www.multicians.org/shell.html Louis Pouzin, "The Origin of the Shell"]
* [http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm99/pouzin.html A small biography of Louis Pouzin]
* [http://olivier.roller.free.fr/pouzinlouis.html A nice photo of Louis Pouzin taken by French photographer Olivier Roller]
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