From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:58:38 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split
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Norman Wilson scripsit:

> Once upon a time, I made an RK05 disk (5MB) with a stripped-down
> post-V7 for an 11/45.  It had just enough programs to allow basic file
> manipulation and text-processing.

In my first job, around 1976, I hand-carried an RK05 from New Jersey
to Kansas City.  It was full of my employer's proprietary software,
which I was to install.  The laternative was to bring a huge pile of
floppies, which didn't seem sensible.

I was able to convince the airline security of those days that they
could neither open the RK nor X-ray it, but when it got there, it was
unreadable anyway.  My colleague took the next flight, with the huge
pile.

> Due to contractor screwups (when the chilled water was turned on, it
> rained up and down the hall--many poorly-soldered joints in the copper
> pipes), [...]

During PM, always mount a scratch machine room!

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