[Gllug] Filesystem root directory oddity

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:16:09PM +0000, John Hearns wrote:
> 2009/3/17 Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>:
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:35:11PM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
> >>>
> > On some very old Apollo machines I used to use, //nodename/path
> > referred to a file on another machine, a kind of poor man's NFS.
> 
> DomainOS.
> Poor mans NFS? POOR MANS? You do remember how much those things cost don't you?
> I remember something like 30K or 50K for the one we had in Glasgow.

Arf ..  Most of what I remember about them was the insane windowing
system.  In fact there is a screenshot here which brings it all back:

http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/apollo-dm.gif

At the time I could never work out what the "I", "S" and "R" buttons
did.  I assume looking at it now it must be something like "Iconize",
"Shut" and (?)"Reload".

Rich.

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