Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: arp CD command change???
Message-ID: <3516@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 25 Feb 89 16:21:42 GMT
References: <8902131846.AA21527@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <3434@sugar.uu.net> <731@microsoft.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <731@microsoft.UUCP>, w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) writes:
> I think the idea of mounting devices on each other is one of the great things
> Unix brought to the world.

OS/9 took the idea to heart, though the developers wanted people to specify
the device a file was on, as AmigaDOS does.

Very simple syntax:

	/floppy/bin/sh.

There was also a "/dev" pseudo device for character style devices.

The "root" file system was not "really" there. The only problem you have
with this is you can't say "the root of the current device".

In practice, "//" as the "superroot" works ok.
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