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From: Shez@sv.span.com (Shez)
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Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 96 18:00:49  GMT
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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.