Hoyt wrote: > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 08:07 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > >>This morning while I was looking around the filesystem for something I >>happened to notice something strange. >> >>drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 dev/ >> >>notice the size and datestamp on /dev. Any thoughts? >> >>Mark > > > > It's an artifact of devfs. IIRC, that particulat date is known as the "epoch", > or the beginning of Unix time. Apparently nothing important happened before > that. 8)
Hoyt, That is awesomely interesting. I don't suppose I could get you talking about the early days of Unix could I? I find the early history of computers and the OS's that ran on them incredibly fascinating. Mark
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