ron@Brl@sri-unix (11/19/82)
From: the Geoff Goodfellow Remailing of Ron Natalie <ron@Brl> Date: 16 Nov 82 2:37:10-EST (Tue) While roughing out some of the software changes for the UNIX port to the Denelcor HEP, we had an idea to speed up the mapping from Username to UID and vice versa (I stress we only considered this for a very short time before discarding it). Since the HEP words are 64 bits long, an 8 character username fits nicely into an integer which could be used as the user id. Unfortunately, this would make the account 'root' have a uid of 8245931986745556992 rather than it's customary zero and the priv account would have to be typed as a string of eight nulls. Also in the stupid suggestion department: How about a VMS emulator under UNIX. Seems like people are working in the wrong direction. -Ron P.S. I'm not serious.