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[173.48.42.254]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c204sm390395qkb.90.2019.09.16.18.26.35 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:26:35 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) From: Clem cole X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (16G102) In-Reply-To: <20190917011752.GY2046@mcvoy.com> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 21:26:34 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <60761215-5B0E-41E9-A333-8799C6FAADD3@ccc.com> References: <0bc0d10f-d17c-24df-2a7f-8f154eefd318@kilonet.net> <20190917011752.GY2046@mcvoy.com> To: Larry McVoy 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" I=E2=80=99ve forgotten but it could have been early on. Having /root as the s= uper users home directory was on later systems. I thought Masscomp did that b= ut I might be thinking Stellar by then. =20 Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.= =20 > On Sep 16, 2019, at 9:17 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: >=20 >> 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 ho= ur >>> and a half when I was called away to lunch, and, being hungry, didn't sa= ve >>> my file.?? When I got back to the terminal an hour later, I discovered t= wo >>> things -- the system had crashed, and our cat had decided that the pile o= f >>> paper >>> on the floor made a great litter box.?? After a few choice words, I sigh= ed >>> and picked up my highliter... >>=20 >> This should be engraved on a plaque somewhere. Only because I had almost t= he >> 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 t= he >> entire thing after the file got corrupted. >=20 > I think we have all been there. Something always goes wrong. I wrote=20 > 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.