Herr Doctor Wkt:
Does anybody have a PDF of the 1974 Unix CACM paper, I seem to have
misplaced my copy.
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It appears to be generally available via the ACM Digital Library,
of all places. (No, I'm not so smart: Google pointed me there.)
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=361061
It appears to be the genuine 1974 version, though my paper copy
of that issue of CACM is buried behind too many boxes right now
for me to dig it out and check. Disk storage for `The PDP-11/45
on which our UNIX installation is implemented' is as Warren
describes for the 6th Edition update: 1MB fixed-head disk,
four 2.5MB removable-cartridge drives, and a single 40MB
removable-pack drive.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
I have heard the story a few times about sbin split is due to disk
space, such as told at
http://www.osnews.com/story/25556/Understanding_the_bin_sbin_usr_bin_usr_sb…http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html
But I don't see any mention of it in 32V and not in BSD until around
Net2 (like in 1991 src.README said ``... there has been a major
reorganization of the file system. (You may have seen similar
reorganizations on systems shipped by Sun Microsytems [sic] and Digital
Equipment Corporation, among others.) ... /sbin same as /bin, but
binaries for the root user''. The slides from Feb. 1988 for a BSD BOF at
USENIX mentioned this sbin reorganization.
Looking at "Unix Text Processing" (1987) and "Life with Unix" (1989) I
didn't see any use of sbin/. (I didn't look at my other old books.)
>From searching old 1980 usenet archives I only saw a few mentions (like
/usr/brl/sbin/...).
When did some (non-BSD) systems ship and document /sbin, /usr/sbin?
Is the common story (liked linked above) the right story?
Jeremy C. Reed
echo uggc://errqzrqvn.arg/obbxf/ofq-uvfgbel/ | \
tr "noqruvxzabcefgl" "abdehikmnoprsty"
Ronald Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> I suspect strcpy arrived with the "portable I/O library", an abomination
> that eventually evolved into the stdio library and to this day is still
> stinking up the standard C language.
What's so bad about stdio? That's a genuine question - I've never had
a reason to dislike stdio...
SF
