From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id eb120f11 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 01:34:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id BF6E99C00D; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:34:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740E0947A2; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:34:00 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 94619947A2; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:33:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 344DC9479A for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:33:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id BD79D35E11A; Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:33:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:33:57 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Clem cole Message-ID: <20190917013357.GA2046@mcvoy.com> References: <0bc0d10f-d17c-24df-2a7f-8f154eefd318@kilonet.net> <20190917011752.GY2046@mcvoy.com> <60761215-5B0E-41E9-A333-8799C6FAADD3@ccc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <60761215-5B0E-41E9-A333-8799C6FAADD3@ccc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] earliest Unix roff X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" In retrospect having / be roots home is a super bad idea but I think it was fairly common practice, /root became a thing as idiots like me messed things up :) On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 09:26:34PM -0400, Clem cole wrote: > I???ve forgotten but it could have been early on. Having /root as the super users home directory was on later systems. I thought Masscomp did that but I might be thinking Stellar by then. > > Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite. > > > On Sep 16, 2019, at 9:17 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 09:11:17PM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote: > >>> On 9/16/2019 8:20 PM, Steve Johnson wrote: > >>> One day I had been furiously editing a long program file for about an hour > >>> and a half when I was called away to lunch, and, being hungry, didn't save > >>> my file.?? When I got back to the terminal an hour later, I discovered two > >>> things -- the system had crashed, and our cat had decided that the pile of > >>> paper > >>> on the floor made a great litter box.?? After a few choice words, I sighed > >>> and picked up my highliter... > >> > >> This should be engraved on a plaque somewhere. Only because I had almost the > >> same thing happen to me, without the cat though. I had a printout of a > >> "mail" program I had written on TOPS-10 at high school. I had to retype the > >> entire thing after the file got corrupted. > > > > I think we have all been there. Something always goes wrong. I wrote > > a paper about how to restore a Masscomp because I did rm -rf . in /. > > I believe we had roots home as / because /usr was a different partition. > > Clem, did Masscomp make roots home / or was that us? Anyway, I did a > > cd something > > and somehow deleted the something and then did rm -rf . > > Much fun was had, I was up all night putting things back together. > > This was probably around 1984 or 1985, I was pretty green. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm