[ale] Quick LInux Quiz

[Stephan Uphoff]

> This is, I presume, for historical compatibility.  Certain versions of
> Unix, and early network file systems, used paths of the form
> //hostname/path to access `path' on server `hostname'.
> [/blockquote]
> 
> I don't personally know what they were referring to here. I was planning 
> on asking a couple of the very experienced engineers (unix since the mid 
> seventies in one case) around the office that might know better.

Think - automounter from hell :-)
//hostname/ would access the root directory of host 'hostname'.
( Not NFS - I believe this was based on some statefull protocol) 

I encountered a Unix system like this more than 15 years ago.
Hopefully all these systems are dead by now.

	Stephan