the "separate /usr" subthread

[Timothy Murphy]

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 .


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Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland