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Peter da Silva wrote:
>>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.
>
>
Guys who go as far back as you do should be declaird national
treasures just for the lore you hold ;-).
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