Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:20:11 -0800 From: Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/home vs /home Message-ID: <20120221062011.GE6294@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <201202211240.53859.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> References: <4F3ECF23.5000706@fisglobal.com> <201202210910.20658.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> <20120221052603.GC6294@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <201202211240.53859.erich@alogreentechnologies.com>
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--K/NRh952CO+2tg14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoth Erich Dollansky on Tuesday, 21 February 2012: > Hi, >=20 > On Tuesday 21 February 2012 12:26:03 Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Erich Dollansky on Tuesday, 21 February 2012: > > > Hi, > > >=20 > > > On Monday 20 February 2012 21:44:43 Da Rock wrote: > > > > On 02/18/12 17:47, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > >=20 > > > > >> There may have been a historic reason, but now it is philosophic= al - trying > > > > > when I got my hands for the first time on a BSD system, the machi= ne has had several 5MB hard disks. > > > > > > > > > > I assume that what now is called partitioning came from the need = to have several disks to run a serious system. > > > > > > > > > > And yes, it was possible to boot and run BSD with at least 20 use= rs on several 5MB disks. > > > > > > > > > > Erich > > > > Erich, can I be so bold as to ask what brand the disks were? And ta= x=20 > > > > your memory as to when? > > >=20 > > > it was DEC PDP-11 with a strange drive. One disk was fixed, one was r= emovable. This is the reason why it was easy to switch the operating system= . RL .. something like this was the disk name. > > >=20 > >=20 > > I believe the 5MB removable were RL01. They also had a 10MB removable > > RL02, which we used for software distribution. We resold them to our > > customers at $170 each. >=20 > yes, this sound familiar. The RL02 came later. >=20 > I think that tapes were much more common for software distribution those = days. >=20 > I still remember the responsiveness of RSX-11 even compared to FreeBSD un= der all circumstances. Real time is real time. >=20 > Erich > >=20 Oh man -- we wrote process control software in Fortran-77 on RSX-11M to automate our software distribution processes. That was the best! DECNET to communicate between systems. --=20 =2EO. | Sterling (Chip) Camden | http://camdensoftware.com =2E.O | sterling@camdensoftware.com | http://chipsquips.com OOO | 2048R/D6DBAF91 | http://chipstips.com --K/NRh952CO+2tg14 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPQzebAAoJEIpckszW26+RlGMIAJcw9e469rha0O8BfmJtfUrY Srm5AiurmgJkFPU1jKm7y3cZHGd7Nx8rlc0Gkbn2AtwCSwmWyHOAx1XkHj+WZOPD 9dJYuefNTYiUbllSKBqjQj4o1B5C9+yOyyNOPbgV7MrHkn8YsM+ilVDzNu2LkELr 6LmJwEPNiP9DnA7Zg5nYXoeqTu07VgUt1Wayz5WoTTmX1z2xpWMnZjzuyBor137F GWlEhYtO0sz7ie3eEKq4GoKaTyEWZllRqVlpqaaOm78nYnY68InKrhuv5RDmxjB1 xCnlVJlPbkYSGjmniLasBL1rek48xSl7bqz6u4ADIg31jF2kgRole2b3DadV6j4= =udBa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --K/NRh952CO+2tg14--
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