On 3/23/24 09:53, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Yes. So Unix did have a shutdown procedure, and it was particularly critical
to do it and do it right. I remember when I first heard about Unix, when at
the U of Illinois -- some PDP11s in the Center for Advanced Computation ran it,
for their Arpanet connection. The story was that CAC was a good facility to
run Unix because it had very reliable power -- it was built to house Illiac 4
before that machine was moved to a military facility in response to campus
protests. So there was little worry about having to repair the file system
manually after a power failure -- I guess fsck hadn't been created yet, or
perhaps wasn't reliable yet.
paul
You say that like fsck is reliable now....
Doc
