wrong /u/ was homedir /usr appdir

Post #326,105 by boxley 5/12/10 8:23:49 PM Reply	wrong /u/ was homedir /usr appdir If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
Post #326,114 by crazy 5/12/10 11:14:01 PM Reply	sorry box /usr/bin had a SHITLOAD of stuff that came with my default install. /bin had the limited amount of stuff needed when booted single user for maintainance, but certainly not 90% of the system supplied text processing apps, or the compilers, or the nroff/troff stuff, or the (you get the point) (I hope). My stuff was late 70s early 80s gear. I was paying close attention to the Sys V/BSD differences since I had to port my code between them, and the bastardized Xenix systems.
Post #326,129 by boxley 5/13/10 9:10:17 AM Reply	why sorry you are agreeing with me :-) /bin had the limited amount of stuff needed when booted single user for maintainance, but certainly not 90% of the system supplied text processing apps, or the compilers, or the nroff/troff stuff, or the (you get the point) (I hope). /bin to run the system /usr (bin lib downstream) for applications users used If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
Post #326,338 by crazy 5/16/10 4:52:02 PM Reply	Definition problem I listed tools, not applications. But I see what you mean. Once the system is booted, your job is done.
Post #326,116 by folkert 5/12/10 11:47:46 PM Reply	say: /usr Go on... say it. What does that sound like? /u was used for a "short" user. Then as slightly more memory became available, it was expanded to /usr. Initially /usr/<username>/program was being used heavily by many people and then as the idea of $PATH came into being... a blessed path was written in. This is where /usr/bin came from. to distinguish from /usr/<username>. Then a lot of people started griping that some systems things to boot where being written and put in /usr/bin. Eventually /bin and /sbin became the places for system starting programs and other initialization programs need to boot the machine were. So early crap was /u for homedirs. /u being cryptic, became less so with a pronounceable version "/usr" or user. Then when these things became where admins (out of being lazy and not want to compile/link everything on install) wanted to make /usr read-only and exportable and mounted from a central machine. /u became the user directory again and eventually /home. Sorry, you mind is playing tricks on you again. I've referenced some mimeo-graphed training manuals I have from 1984 that were given to me with that OLD 900 series machine. they intermixed /u and /usr because at that point /u was considered legacy.
Post #326,130 by boxley 5/13/10 9:12:15 AM Reply	fair enough maybe my memory isnt what it used to be. I have the first edition ATT unix prog manual written by Kernihan and Ritchie. I will take a look when I get home to see If there is any references one way or the other. If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)

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