From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MIME_QP_LONG_LINE,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 28335908 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:55:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 8042FA1E2E; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 01:55:38 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07ED19E99B; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 01:55:09 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id AD78F9E99B; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 01:55:02 +1000 (AEST) Received: from bagheera.alchemistowl.org (bagheera.alchemistowl.org [185.15.93.23]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2A4F9E998 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 01:55:01 +1000 (AEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at bagheera.alchemistowl.org Received: from [10.229.45.94] (183.227.197.178.dynamic.wless.zhbmb00p-cgnat.res.cust.swisscom.ch [178.197.227.183]) (authenticated bits=0) by bagheera.alchemistowl.org (8.16.0.21/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id w8RFsvIl002700 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:54:58 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) From: Arrigo Triulzi X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (16A366) In-Reply-To: <4caca587-4945-c8be-5a35-c9f0ecfdd08b@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 17:54:51 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <309587CA-4C65-4AFA-ADFF-0E99B430D191@alchemistowl.org> References: <20180927120854.u8rei%ca6c@bitmessage.ch> <633187202.18875.1538053129435.JavaMail.tomcat@india-live-be04> <36C6F216-490E-4DE4-B5EF-CED26899542F@alchemistowl.org> <4caca587-4945-c8be-5a35-c9f0ecfdd08b@gmail.com> To: Jon Forrest Subject: Re: [TUHS] The origin of /home X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 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" On 27 Sep 2018, at 17:36, Jon Forrest wrote: > Right, and I am that Jon Forrest Well, made a fool of myself there! > It's been a while, but what I remember is that DEC actually published > their own method for doing this but it was surprisingly cumbersome. > What I described was incredibly simple but effective. I ran many > Alphas this way with no problems at all. On OSF/1 T1.0, which is what we got shipped with our first Alphas, we were c= ategorically told by REO that we were on our own. At the time there were fou= r Alphas in the UK: three were ours and one was at REO running OpenVMS in th= e morning and OSF/1 in the afternoon (or vice-versa) and we spent a long wee= kend napping on the machine room floor and on caffeine trying to figure out h= ow to get /usr mounted despite the SIA startup script as we had no choice an= d the cluster needed to be up as it had cost a small fortune. The later DEC solution I recall requiring more disk space on the clients, wh= ich we didn=E2=80=99t have, but I=E2=80=99m sure that later ships with suffi= cient disk space had less issues. Another weekend was spent getting TeX and LaTeX running with ghostscript MX=E2= =80=99d from the Ultrix MIPS binary as we just couldn=E2=80=99t get it to co= mpile. That it even worked using MX remains one of the most beautiful surpri= ses of that install. Arrigo=20