17 Sep
2019
17 Sep
'19
7:26 a.m.
I’ve forgotten but it could have been early on. Having /root as the super users home
directory was on later systems. I thought Masscomp did that but I might be thinking
Stellar by then.
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
On Sep 16, 2019, at 9:17 PM, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 09:11:17PM -0400, Arthur
Krewat wrote:
I think we have all been there. Something always goes wrong. I wrote
a paper about how to restore a Masscomp because I did rm -rf . in /.
I believe we had roots home as / because /usr was a different partition.
Clem, did Masscomp make roots home / or was that us? Anyway, I did a
cd something
and somehow deleted the something and then did rm -rf .
Much fun was had, I was up all night putting things back together.
This was probably around 1984 or 1985, I was pretty green. On 9/16/2019 8:20 PM, Steve Johnson wrote:
One day I had been furiously editing a long program file for about an hour
and a half when I was called away to lunch, and, being hungry, didn't save
my file.?? When I got back to the terminal an hour later, I discovered two
things -- the system had crashed, and our cat had decided that the pile of
paper
on the floor made a great litter box.?? After a few choice words, I sighed
and picked up my highliter...
This should be engraved on a plaque somewhere. Only because I had almost the
same thing happen to me, without the cat though. I had a printout of a
"mail" program I had written on TOPS-10 at high school. I had to retype the
entire thing after the file got corrupted.