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On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Andy Newman wrote:

> > 	but the /usr/local directory paradigm is a Berkeley thing.
> > 	It probably began with the 4.X distribution
> 
> It's in a 3BSD tree I have lying around. Dated 1980.

I was using it on Edition 6 (and possibly Edition 5) in the 70s.

-- Dave