Re: Why complicated directory structure in Linux

mydejamail@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

I did not slag it, I simply wanted to understand the rationale for
having 3 bin, usr, lib, etc directories. You also forget that Windows
originated in the main as a single user system and a lot of the design
considerations applying to Unix never got to bear on it.

Just some minor corrections.

1) DOS is a descendent, at least indirectly, from Unix. The original
DOS was written to be like CP/M which was written to be like Unix.
There are some bizarrenesses, like why they chose the opposite
slash character for directory separators, but in many ways DOS
looks a lot like a quick-and-dirty Unix knock-off.

DOS had other progentiors also. I think the 3 character file
suffixes (extensions) are a "VMSism" in the sense that DEC OSes of
the time tended to use 3 character file extensions rather than
single letter ones.

Windows is, of course, a MAC knock-off, where MACs now use a
Unix-style kernel in OS-X.

2) Unix was also originally single something, as in the quote "Unix is
one of what Multics is many of".
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