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Cisco shell is like this, 'show running-config' becomes 'sh ru'

• pinewurst 6y ago
  The Cisco shell is a direct descendent of the DEC TOPS-20 one BTW.
  • cat199 6y ago
    > direct descendent never heard anything like this - care to elaborate / point?
    • pinewurst 6y ago
      The Cisco founders were DEC20/TOPS20 fanatics from Stanford. It’s perfectly sensible that their chosen CLI would reflect their favorite example - and it really is an excellent CLI. Post Cisco, Len Bosack actually started a company, XKL, intending to build the next-gen DEC20. By the time this actually happened, the world had long moved on and XKL redirected to optical networks stuff.