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From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
Date: 14 Nov 1996 15:23:22 GMT
Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway
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[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? :-)

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no