[TUHS] inode - does it have a meaning?

[Warner Losh via TUHS]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM Noel Chiappa via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

>     > From: Steffen Nurpmeso
>
>     > Isn't this an influential paper.
>
> Written well over a decade after initial UNIX. The chances that anyone
> there
> knew anything about very early UNIX (especially as old documents had not
> yet
> started to show up on the early Internet, back then) are zero.
>

 Yet they could have had it from oral history, given Ken's 1975
sabbatical to Berkeley, no? And the paper pre-dates his later
recollections, and surely he reviewed it and would have raised an objection
if he knew it was wrong. Kirk McKusick, the author, is on this list, I
think. Though, I will grant it's not primary evidence.

Warner