I remember the before-time, when the GNU lived only in Boston. When beasts like 'adb' and 'fsdb' roamed the earth, and 'fsck' was the wimpy stuff of childrens

I remember the before-time, when the GNU lived only in Boston. When beasts like 'adb' and 'fsdb' roamed the earth, and 'fsck' was the wimpy stuff of childrens taunts. When I controlled my horror and revulsion and used them to recover the broken VAX by manually rebuilding inode lists and finding the lost fragments in the dark. Hard tools for hard admins; the Gods of BSD, McKusick and Joy and the rest, were and are wise. We live in more refined times....