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 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
