history of homedirs on unices

[woodelf]

Bert Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder: nowadays most unices have their homedirectories in /home. 
> Minix however used to have its homedirectories in /usr. Did "real" 
> unices used to have the homedirectories their as well? Can someone tell 
> something about how that evolved? I'm probably to young to know (31).

I suspect /home /usr and other large directories were on seperate hard
drives on real unix. Minix started from just floppy disks if I remember 
right.
> Bert
Ben alias woodelf