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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!sun4nl!cwi.nl!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Message-ID: <E0vDIL.CI8@cwi.nl> Sender: news@cwi.nl (The Daily Dross) Nntp-Posting-Host: rood.cwi.nl Organization: CWI, Amsterdam References: <steve.847913388@fastnet.prd.co.uk> <E0v6zG.1oC@cwi.nl> <56fdha$r9i@verdi.nethelp.no> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 16:51:56 GMT Lines: 16 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26402 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1493 alt.folklore.computers:124575 In article <56fdha$r9i@verdi.nethelp.no> sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) writes: > [Dik T. Winter] > > | > 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? > > How about 64K 16-bit words? Are we trying to set a new record here? :-) 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. -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924131 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/