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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX history made easy
Message-ID: <1989Oct2.205642.5715@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 2 Oct 89 20:56:42 GMT
References:  <20226@usc.edu>  <17085@rpp386.cactus.org> <1858@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> <17090@rpp386.cactus.org>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <17090@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>What the tacky bit did was cause /unix to scan each subdirectory
>of a directory on file name lookups.  So it would be possible to
>have ten or twenty subdirectories each with a different mounted
>file system all look like a single system image.  ...

It worked very nicely, except that when you had the arms on your five RK05
disks seeking in unison, the cabinet in which they were mounted tended to
shake and fall over.  

So what's the real reason early versions printed a semicolon before login: ?
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John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869
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