Re: Operator, Information, give me geom.ctl on the line

From: Bob Bishop <rb_at_gid.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:36:52 UTC 
Hi,

> On 28 Jul 2026, at 20:57, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> 
> […]
> All the way back to 386BSD's /etc/MAKEDEV script, and probably prior to
> that, group operator  [etc]

I suspect this may originate with UTS on IBM mainframes in the early 80s.

> Poul-Henning
> 
> (Who makes absolutely no apologies for the Subject line.)

:-)

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