Glenda Schroeder
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Glenda Schroeder is an American software engineer who implemented the first "shell" for the Multics
operating system (a predecessor to the Unix shell
). She also described the first e-mail implementation in 1964-65 (with Pat Crisman and Louis Pouzin) for a system of notifying users about backups of files
.
Multics
Multics was an influential early time-sharing operating system. The project was started in 1964 in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
operating system (a predecessor to the Unix shell
Unix shell
A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter or shell that provides a traditional user interface for the Unix operating system and for Unix-like systems...
). She also described the first e-mail implementation in 1964-65 (with Pat Crisman and Louis Pouzin) for a system of notifying users about backups of files
.