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- From: net@cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann)
- Subject: Re: Unix naming conventions from the dark times
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.091536.2998@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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- Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <1992Aug27.110730.16828@fwi.uva.nl>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 09:15:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.110730.16828@fwi.uva.nl> stolk@fwi.uva.nl (Bram) writes:
- > bin - binaries
- > src - source
- > lib - library
- > [...]
- >
- > Surely, some elderly fellow-unix-user must remember the origins for
- > those names from the early days...
-
- I wouldn't call myself `elderly' yet, but in the first UNIX system I
- had access to (UNIX V6, around 1979), the /sys directory (or was it
- /usr/sys?) still had sub-directories named `ken' and `dmr'.
-
- At that time we didn't know the origin of these names; I remember
- that a colleague of mine guessed that `dmr' might be the abbreviation
- for `device management routines' and that the word `ken' must have
- something to do with `kernel' :-)
-