Louis Pouzin created RUNCOM for CTSS circa 1963.[2] He released a paper in 1965 describing a design for the Multics shell which includes a brief description of RUNCOM[3] followed by a second paper he released five days later describing a design for RUNCOM that added commands for control flow, conditional branching and looping.[4] In the context of Unix-like systems, the term rc stands for the phra