Create a file with history in sh

["Rocky Hotas" <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost>]

Hello!
I am quite new with this mailing-list.
During the installation of NetBSD, I choose /bin/sh as the default root and 
user shell.
In the users' home directories there are not files like .sh_history or similar 
and no "history-like" files are updated when I log in or log out. But I would 
like to keep trace of all the commands typed in the terminal, the last 100 or 
1000, and not only the ones typed in the current login session, accessible with 
the up arrow.
Reading the sh manual I didn't find the possibility to create a permanent file 
with history like in bash or ksh.
Is it true or there exist some possibility to do this? Or where I can look for 
this option?
With Google I didn't find more.
This seemed the best place for my question, but please give me any suggestion 
if I am someway wrong.
Thank you!

Rocky