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Article #4384Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
From: Curt Welch
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 00:00
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[Fewer Headers] I wrote: : As a quiz, how many people remember these directories, : what they were used for, and what their names mean. : /sys/dmr : /sys/ken Chris Russell a.k.a. cgrussel@bradford.ac.uk (Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats) answered: > Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie? That's it. They contained the source to the kernel. One directory contained the device drivers and the other contained everything else. I forget which was which, but I think "ken" was the kernel source and "dmr" held the device drivers. I have a faint memory of trying to figure out what dmr stood for. Device Managment Routines? I can only assume the names came as a result of who was working on what code. Its been a long time, so I might have the path wrong. It might have been something like /sys/src/dmr, but I don't think so. Things were much simpler back in those days. Curt Welch http://CurtWelch.Com/
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