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....
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