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> Isn't that /bin vs /usr/bin (and /sbin vs /usr/sbin) ? No, the /bin vs /usr/bin is an older split, from before the days of shared libraries. /bin was operating system stuff that you always needed, so you put it in the system disk. /usr/bin was stuff that users needed so you put it on the user disk which wasn't always mounted. That's when an RL01 was 5MB and an RL02 was 10MB and a fast fixed head disk like you might have root or swap on if you were a real hotrodder was often less than 1MB, with bits almost big enough to read with a pinch of iron filings. One day I walked into Cory Hall and saw the DEC PM spit-polishing the surface of the swap disk on the undergraduate 11/70. Great days, boys, great days indeed.There's stuff above here
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