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While reading this, I realized that I have a copy of the elusive usr/group Standard that the author mentions. I just pulled it off an image of my early DOS hard drive (before I migrated to Linux in 1991). I should probably post it somewhere.

# ls -altr

total 540

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22606 Apr 12 1990 NOTES

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172645 Apr 12 1990 LIB

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102349 Apr 12 1990 APP

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 224037 Apr 12 1990 C

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> I should probably post it somewhere.

Upload it to the Internet Archive! :D

https://help.archive.org/help/uploading-a-basic-guide/

Thanks. It looks like the document itself is still copyrighted. The files can be uploaded, so I will.

> before I migrated to Linux in 1991

What a mic drop. That must have been a fun ride from then until now! Would love to hear some of your battle stories.

My first Linux machine was in 1993, what would you like to know? Pre-1.0 Kernels were an adventure that’s for sure.

My first Linux box ran 0.99.10. I was running SLS, which installed off of a dozen or so floppies. I eventually moved to Slackware a year or so later.

I remember downloading and installing one of the MCC Interim releases in 1993? 1994? before switching to Slackware. Early *BSD and Linux were certainly an adventure back then. I don't miss it.

SLS was also my first distro. I also played with Yggdrasil Linux (bootable CD) for a while, because at the time, nobody could afford a hard drive with as much capacity as a CD-ROM.

Those early Linux distros borrowed a lot from SunOS (Solaris 1), so it was easy to adapt between work/home.

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