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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bconnex.net!news2.insinc.net!thinkage.on.ca!atbowler From: atbowler@thinkage.on.ca (Alan Bowler) Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Message-ID: <E0x7C3.7u6@thinkage.on.ca> Sender: news@thinkage.on.ca Organization: Thinkage Ltd. References: <562i2k$f3a@kirin.wwa.com> <steve.847913388@fastnet.prd.co.uk> <E0v6zG.1oC@cwi.nl> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:33:39 GMT Lines: 8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26448 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1516 alt.folklore.computers:124643 In article <E0v6zG.1oC@cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes: >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? I still live with a 180k 36-bit limit.