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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!sv.span.com!Shez From: Shez@sv.span.com (Shez) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: Sun, 17 Nov 96 18:00:49 GMT Organization: IKIBHTL Lines: 15 Message-ID: <848278849snx@sv.span.com> References: <328386bc.112278367@news.ov.com> <562i2k$f3a@kirin.wwa.com> <56fdha$r9i@verdi.nethelp.no> X-Mail2News-User: Shez@sv.span.com X-Mail2News-Path: sound.demon.co.uk X-Poster: RAID@span.com, Sound & Vision Internet BBS [+44] (0)181-288-8444 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26528 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1556 alt.folklore.computers:124860 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? :-) Oh come on! That's more than I have even now! (64K 8-bit words on CP/M+) Sheesh, not all of us can afford this week's model you know. -Shez.