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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!cbgw1.lucent.com!cnn.Princeton.EDU!yuma.Princeton.EDU!adam From: adam@yuma.Princeton.EDU (Adam J. Thornton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 14 Nov 1996 23:30:37 GMT Organization: Princeton University Lines: 17 Message-ID: <56ga2t$86@cnn.Princeton.EDU> References: <steve.847913388@fastnet.prd.co.uk> <E0v6zG.1oC@cwi.nl> <56fdha$r9i@verdi.nethelp.no> <E0vDIL.CI8@cwi.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: yuma-subnet124.princeton.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26413 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1497 alt.folklore.computers:124584 In article <E0vDIL.CI8@cwi.nl>, Dik T. Winter <dik@cwi.nl> wrote: > > | Does 32K 27-bit words count? >We are talking real programming. That 32K 27-bit word machine was used >as main (non-administrative) computer for two universities and one (or >perhaps more) research institute. If you mean the machine I think you do, it also supported an incredibly elegant hierarchical batch operating system, whose algorithms were provably correct, and which is at the core of one of the finest CS papers ever written. Adam -- "I'd buy me a used car lot, and | adam@princeton.edu | As B/4 | Save the choad! I'd never sell any of 'em, just | "Skippy, you little fool, you are off on an- drive me a different car every day | other of your senseless and retrograde depending on how I feel.":Tom Waits| little journeys.": Thomas Pynchon | 64,928