On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 16:06 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Not quite. It was due to the physically small sizes of the media > available at the time. Therefore by necessity what would fit would > fit on the root disk and then the system would bootstrap itself to the > full system with more disks. > Yep. UNIX was around from the time when 60 MB disks were quite acceptable on a mainframe and 640 MB was application designer heaven. I know: I was there. In fact, a collection of smaller disks were preferred to one big one because, with the slow rotation speeds of the time (2800 rpm) having less data storage per head meant faster data access.
Martin PS: Sorry: but I couldn't resist this one.
