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On 05/08/2009 05:44 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > Pedantically speaking, I believe it was UC Berkeley who added symlinks > to their FFS (Fast File System) in 4.? BSD Unix. Admittedly, SunOS > was basically a port of BSD Unix from the VAX to Motorola CPUs. > Since you could get a Sun for a lot less money then a VAX and actually > have Unix supported on it by the > hardware vendor, Sun systems were probably the first place that most > people outside of academia > saw symbolic links. However, it's still not the case that Sun invented= them. > > =20 Bill, You are absolutely correct. --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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