Hi, First HPUX 900 certified admin in Canada circa 1982. I too remember those days.
Regards, Rick PS. Still under 50 :) Sent from my iPad > On Feb 5, 2015, at 7:37 PM, Martin Gregorie <mar...@gregorie.org> wrote: > >> 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. > > >
