From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 21 07:38:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8672106564A for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:38:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erich@alogreentechnologies.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.226.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C45C8FC13 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:38:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amd620.ovitrap.com ([49.128.188.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q1L7bxbV008000; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:38:02 -0700 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: ALO Green Technologies Pte Ltd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:37:56 +0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE; KDE/4.7.4; amd64; ; ) References: <201202210606.q1L66vQO003582@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <201202210606.q1L66vQO003582@mail.r-bonomi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201202211437.57176.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:32:10 +0000 Cc: freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au, Robert Bonomi Subject: Re: /usr/home vs /home X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:38:05 -0000 Hi, On Tuesday 21 February 2012 13:06:57 Robert Bonomi wrote: > Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On Monday 20 February 2012 21:44:43 Da Rock wrote: > > > On 02/18/12 17:47, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > > > when I got my hands for the first time on a BSD system, the machine 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 users on several 5MB disks. > > > > > > > > Erich > > > Erich, can I be so bold as to ask what brand the disks were? And tax > > > your memory as to when? > > > > it was DEC PDP-11 with a strange drive. One disk was fixed, one was removable. > > This is the reason why it was easy to switch the operating system. RL .. > > something like this was the disk name. > > AHA. probably an 'RL-05', cousin to the better known "RK-05" > > 14" media, in a 'cartridge'. I -think- it was an 'SMD' interface 14" could be true as it just fitted into a 19" rack. SMD? I have no idea. It was something others did not use I have known then. SCSI came only later, ST506? Did it exist already? Erich