Interesting this use case wasn't covered in the mailing list post, I too experienced this exact reason for them being split in the early 90s. In that era, a lot

Interesting this use case wasn't covered in the mailing list post, I too experienced this exact reason for them being split in the early 90s. In that era, a lot of university terminals were very low end (small disks) - they mounted shares if they ran as Netware clients as well, not just Unix/Linux/BSD. Some of them only had boot floppies.