From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 9311 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2022 04:25:59 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 21 Nov 2022 04:25:59 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31CB640EFD; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:25:53 +1000 (AEST) Received: from nsstlmta16p.bpe.bigpond.com (nsstlmta16p.bpe.bigpond.com [203.38.21.16]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DFD1740EFB for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:25:47 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtp.telstra.com ([10.10.24.4]) by nsstlfep16p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au with ESMTP id <20221121042545.WZVE6569.nsstlfep16p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au@smtp.telstra.com> for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:25:45 +1100 X-RG-Spam: Unknown X-RazorGate-Vade: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedvgedrheehgdeilecutefuodetggdotefrodftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfupfevtfgpvffgnffuvffttedpqfgfvfenuceurghilhhouhhtmecugedttdenucenucfjughrpeffhffvufgjkfhffgggtgesthdttddttdervdenucfhrhhomhepffgrvhgvucfjohhrshhfrghllhcuoegurghvvgeshhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgqeenucggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpeekieetjeeuuefhfeeguedvudeifeevudfgvedtffekhfffjeekhfdutdetheethfenucfkphepuddutddrudeguddrudelfedrvdeffeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhephhgvlhhopegrnhgvuhhrihhnrdhhohhrshhfrghllhdrohhrghdpihhnvghtpeduuddtrddugedurdduleefrddvfeefpdhmrghilhhfrhhomhepuggrvhgvsehhohhrshhfrghllhdrohhrghdpnhgspghrtghpthhtohepuddprhgtphhtthhopehtuhhhshesthhuhhhsrdhorhhgpdhrvghvkffrpegtphgvqdduuddtqddugeduqdduleefqddvfeefrdhnshifrdgrshhprdhtvghlshhtrhgrrdhnvghtpdhgvghokffrpeetfgdpoffvtefjohhsthepnhhsshhtlhhrghduvdhpqdhsvhgt X-RazorGate-Vade-Verdict: clean 0 X-RazorGate-Vade-Classification: clean X-RG-VS-CLASS: clean Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (110.141.193.233) by smtp.telstra.com (5.8.812) id 637AAB1A00111683 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:25:44 +1100 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 2AL4PhQm021866 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:25:43 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 2AL4PhT2021863 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:25:43 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:25:43 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: <27941134744AD184AC73F12C29DE3471.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Message-ID: References: <27941134744AD184AC73F12C29DE3471.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID-Hash: H7HGKSUHT2ESO2NGPB4E3EUTNDV6TILH X-Message-ID-Hash: H7HGKSUHT2ESO2NGPB4E3EUTNDV6TILH X-MailFrom: dave@horsfall.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: /usr/mdec List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Sun, 20 Nov 2022, Norman Wilson wrote: > I'm curious about the origin of the directory name /usr/mdec. (I am > reminded of it because I've noticed that it lives on in at least one of > the BSDs.) > > I had a vague notion that it meant `DEC maintenance' but that seems a > bit clumsy to describe a place holding boot blocks. As far as I know, that's right; MAINDEC was certainly on all of their standalone diagnostic media (a beauty was DECEX, which thrashed the PDP-11 and uncovered a bug in our RK-11 controller; it screwed up on overlapped seeks which RSX didn't use but Harvard(?) did, so DEC's view was that it was obviously a Unix problem). -- Dave