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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:30:52 GMT
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In article <steve.847913388@fastnet.prd.co.uk> steve@fastnet.prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) writes:
 > Next we'll be hearing from people who know what it was like to have no
 > more than 100K 36-bit words to do real programming in.

Does 32K 27-bit words count?
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