Jim Gettys wrote: > > > Heh. You are way too young.... > > The presumption has always been you'd better keep things in /tmp pretty > small; that's why the distinction between /tmp and /var/tmp was made. > It allowed people to use RAM file systems for speed long before it would > have otherwise been feasible. > - Jim > > These kids who think that 256M of physical ram is *small* :-)
My first Unix machine had 128K of MOS memory, and we supported about 10-15 interactive users on it at a time, with a 30M disk drive that was the size of a washing machine. Having /tmp in RAM was a newfangled thing that came along later, but with 30M of physical disk there, /tmp had to be small anyway!
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