On 29.03.2014 12:48, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 03:59 +0100, poma wrote:
> On 26.03.2014 23:58, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 22:42 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> David G. Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>> The funny thing is that back in the earliest days of Unix, /usr is where
>>>> user directories lived. When K&R ran out of room in / for programs,
they
>>>> looked to for a partition that had additional space available and it was
>>>> /usr. Originally programs ended up in /usr/bin simply because there
>>>> wasn't room for them in /bin; not for some usage reason.
>>>
>>> Yes, I recall that the first Unix system I ran, version 5 on a pdp-11/23,
>>> had two (enormous) 10MB disks, one for the kernel and the other /usr .
>>
>> That ain't nuttin'. We started with an 11/45 with 48KB of core memory
>> and 2 RK05's (2.2MB removable cartridge disks).
>>
>> poc
>>
>
> No matter how small disk can be, can't beat a punched card.
Been there, done that. Also patched paper-tape to fix bugs.
poc
Whence the 'patch' comes. :)
Pat, you are a unixsaur. :)
poma