Re: the "separate /usr" subthread

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On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 22:42 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> David G.  Miller wrote:
> 
> > The funny thing is that back in the earliest days of Unix, /usr is where
> > user directories lived.  When K&R ran out of room in / for programs, they
> > looked to for a partition that had additional space available and it was
> > /usr.  Originally programs ended up in /usr/bin simply because there
> > wasn't room for them in /bin; not for some usage reason.
> 
> Yes, I recall that the first Unix system I ran, version 5 on a pdp-11/23,
> had two (enormous) 10MB disks, one for the kernel and the other /usr .

That ain't nuttin'. We started with an 11/45 with 48KB of core memory
and 2 RK05's (2.2MB removable cartridge disks).

poc

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