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Line 35: ::But this is all fading memories from the mid '80's, which is why I wish the stuff the Sun folks had written about this was available somewhere. [[User:Guy Harris\|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris\|talk]]) 20:16, 18 November 2013 (UTC) The split between /bin and /usr/bin was because they (Kernigan, Ritchies, Thompson, et al) ran out of disk space on the pack (UNIX was written on a PDP!) that had /bin, so they made /usr/bin. See http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html which was referenced from http://www.osnews.com/story/25556/Understanding_the_bin_sbin_usr_bin_usr_sbin_Split/ [[Special:Contributions/174.46.232.2\|174.46.232.2]] ([[User talk:174.46.232.2\|talk]]) 18:19, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

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