On Wed, 17 May 2000, Justin Mason wrote:
> if I recall correctly BSD 4.3 didn't have runlevels, it just had /etc/rc
> and /etc/rc.local; it must have been added since, or in 4.4 (good on yis
> BSD for copying a good idea).
>
i think they might still have had runlevels. Runlevels != init scripts.
> SysV had it since SVR4 at least, it's almost reasonable to say it was
> their one good idea. ;)
>
Their idea was the /style/ of scripts to control the configuration of
different runlevels, not the actual concept of runlevels afaik.
> --j.
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