super duper uberthread

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 03:59 +0100, poma wrote:
> 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.

Been there, done that. Also patched paper-tape to fix bugs.

poc