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From: steve@fastnet.prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
Date: 17 Nov 1996 13:46:14 -0000
Organization: Psychometric Research & Development Ltd
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Message-ID: <steve.848238223@fastnet.prd.co.uk>
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In <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?
 
Oh, all right, I suppose so, but you'll have to put up with me being
boring about writing natural language generation software in 56Kbytes
on an Apple][ that still works 15 years on on a Unix box.
-- 
Steve Blinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk>