/usr/home vs /home

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Tuesday 21 February 2012 13:06:57 Robert Bonomi wrote:
> Erich Dollansky <erich at alogreentechnologies.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 20 February 2012 21:44:43 Da Rock wrote:
> > > On 02/18/12 17:47, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> >
> > > > when I got my hands for the first time on a BSD system, the machine has had several 5MB hard disks.
> > > >
> > > > I assume that what now is called partitioning came from the need to have several disks to run a serious system.
> > > >
> > > > And yes, it was possible to boot and run BSD with at least 20 users on several 5MB disks.
> > > >
> > > > Erich
> > > Erich, can I be so bold as to ask what brand the disks were? And tax 
> > > your memory as to when?
> >
> > it was DEC PDP-11 with a strange drive. One disk was fixed, one was removable.
> > This is the reason why it was easy to switch the operating system. RL .. 
> > something like this was the disk name.
> 
> AHA.  probably an 'RL-05',  cousin to the better known "RK-05"
> 
> 14" media, in a 'cartridge'.   I -think- it was an 'SMD' interface

14" could be true as it just fitted into a 19" rack.

SMD? I have no idea. It was something others did not use I have known then.

SCSI came only later, ST506? Did it exist already?

Erich