Re: [TUHS] /bin vs /sbin

At Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:06:26 -0700, Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org> wrote: Subject: Re: [TUHS] /bin vs /sbin Thanks! (but I still need to pester my service provider for rDNS!) Sorry, I should have been a tiny bit more specific: the "user interface" here refers to a Graphical UI. Unix of course didn't start out with a GUI of any kind, and workstation vendors like Sun and many others at the time made a big deal out of how they were offering a better user interface for their systems. I separate "kernel" and "userland" (here meaning all the command-line programs, etc.) only because that's become a more common way to define the "base OS" in unixy, i.e. linuxy, circles. This distinction between the traditional Unix layer and the GUI is quite important in the history of SunOS, since there have been a number of different offerings from Sun for their GUI (Sun Windowing System, SunView, NeWS, SunWindows); and also in how Sun promoted their various GUI offerings as the solutions for wider use. Even with the advent of a common choice of The X Window System as the basis for most workstation vendor's GUIs, there were still battles over which toolkit and window manager and "look and feel" would prevail (Athena vs. Motif vs. OpenLook), with Sun even evolving their offerings (SunWindows, OpenLook) over time. -- Greg A. Woods <gwoods(a)acm.org> Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <woods(a)robohack.ca> Planix, Inc. <woods(a)planix.com> Avoncote Farms <woods(a)avoncote.ca>