super duper uberthread

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On 26.03.2014 23:58, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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
> 

No matter how small disk can be, can't beat a punched card.


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