On Feb 5, 2012, at 1:38 AM, Hendrik Jan Thomassen wrote:
If I recall well the /sbin directory first appeared in HP/UX,
and the name stood for 'Static binaries'.
Do you recall when this was?
4.3-RENO has the bin/sbin split, and that was 1990, but the split isn't yet in 4.3-Tahoe, which was in 1988. In 4.3-RENO it was already system binaries since 4.3 didn't have shared libraries, at least according to the TUHS 4.3-RENO archive
I don't have a copy of the BSD SCCS trees to narrow the split down further...
Perhaps this indicates multiple invention?
Warner