From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 13:53:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07457 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:53:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral-gw.feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07447 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:53:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral-gw.feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA22422; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:51:29 -0800 Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:51:29 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Dan Strick cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) In-Reply-To: <199811112145.NAA23992@math.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG m in mdec was short for 'machine' IIRC. It wasn't in /usr originally I believe. It was part of the kernel for v7. I don't really recally it as part of v6/PWB, but this is quite a while agao. The boot gup all has to go somewhere. It should be probably ensured to be in the root filesystem. This seems to me to say /boot. On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Dan Strick wrote: > > > The mdec name certainly isn't FreeBSD-specific, changing it would add > > ... > > Has it: FreeBSD, NetBSD, possibly OpenBSD. > > You forgot Solaris-1. /usr/mdec goes back at least as far as > "research version 6" circa 1976. I don't remember when it > disappeared from the BTL/ATT/USL/..SystemV sequence (never used > the later versions at all). > > The name of the directory was a minor mystery even in 1976. > I suspect the "dec" stood for "Digital Equipment Corporation" > but never knew what to make of the "m". > > If everyone wants to change the name of the directory to something > more obvious ... sure, why not. While we are at it, why don't we > also change the name of that non-obvious "grep" command. > > Dan Strick > dan@math.berkeley.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message