18 Mar
2016
18 Mar
'16
11:45 p.m.
Warren Toomey scripsit:
Are you sure it was called "bin"? The PDP-7
team are working on the
assumption that it was called "system" because init links the shell
from "system" into a user's home directory:
Probably an incorrect memory. Of course, in an edge-labeled general
graph, directories don't have names any more than files do in modern
Unix filesystems, so it isn't "what's its name?", it is
"what's its
name in some directory?"
I assume you know about
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.html , which is an essential
resource on Ancientest Unix. Note especially the absence of any way to
create directories while the system is running.
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