• InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It did, let me explain:

    On the original (ie Thompson and Ritchie at Bell in 1969-71), I think it was a PDP-11, they installed to a 512kb hard disk.

    As their “stuff” grew they needed to sprawl the OS to another drive, so they mounted it under /usr and threw OS components that didn’t fit.

    https://landley.net/writing/unixpaths.pdf

    I’ve done the same, outgrew so you mount under a tree to keep going, it just never became a historical artifact.