Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what's the logic behind the /com name?
We needed a place for mutable data that could be shared between machines. The existing de facto standard was 4.4 BSD practice and SunOS, neither of which had a place for this: they simply treated all such data as unsharable. But the MIT AI lab *did* arrange to have it shared. The most common examples at the time were user mailboxes. The AI lab put it in a directory called "com", which stood for "common". So, given that there was *no* standard place for such data, and we were writing a standard, we decided to just adopt the AI lab's name for GNU. Thomas _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
