On 06/04/2015 08:42 AM, David Boyes wrote:
>> > (recall the initial UNIX model had ri= ngs of privileges or was that just
>> > Dante and the Seven levels of hell?)
> No, that was MULTICS. UNIX V6 and earlier always only had 1 privilege flag
> (superuser/general user) due to hardware I/D protectio
> (recall the initial UNIX model had ri= ngs of privileges or was that just
> Dante and the Seven levels of hell?)
No, that was MULTICS. UNIX V6 and earlier always only had 1 privilege flag
(superuser/general user) due to hardware I/D protection limitations on early
model PDPs (pre-11), and we'