1. <operating system> A record of previous user inputs (e.g. to
a command interpreter) which can be re-entered without
re-typing them. The major improvement of the C shell (csh)
over the Bourne shell (sh) was the addition of a command
history. This was still inferior to the history mechanism on
VMS which allowed you to recall previous commands as the
current input line. You could then edit the command using
cursor motion, insert and delete. These sort of history
editing facilities are available under tcsh and GNU Emacs.
2. <history> The history of computing.
3. See Usenet newsgroups soc.history and
alt.history for discussion of the history of the world.
(1995-04-05)
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