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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!polo.demon.co.uk!news From: john@polo.demon.co.uk (John Winters) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 15 Nov 1996 10:48:52 -0000 Organization: Spirit software Lines: 19 Message-ID: <56hhqk$5kj@polo.demon.co.uk> References: <328386bc.112278367@news.ov.com> <steve.847913388@fastnet.prd.co.uk> <E0v6zG.1oC@cwi.nl> <56fdha$r9i@verdi.nethelp.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: polo.demon.co.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26437 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1508 alt.folklore.computers:124630 In article <56fdha$r9i@verdi.nethelp.no>, Steinar Haug <sthaug@nethelp.no> wrote: >[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? :-) How about 1K 8-bit bytes (and that included the display memory)? :-) John (Yes, yes, I know. We're talking about real computers, not things that make even an IBM PC look sophisticated.) -- John Winters. Wallingford, Oxon, England.