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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!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!sun4nl!cwi.nl!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Message-ID: <E12K7J.73H@cwi.nl> Sender: news@cwi.nl (The Daily Dross) Nntp-Posting-Host: rood.cwi.nl Organization: CWI, Amsterdam References: <56fdha$r9i@verdi.nethelp.no> <E0vDIL.CI8@cwi.nl> <56ga2t$86@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 13:59:43 GMT Lines: 17 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26527 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1555 alt.folklore.computers:124858 In article <56ga2t$86@cnn.Princeton.EDU> adam@yuma.Princeton.EDU (Adam J. Thornton) writes: > In article <E0vDIL.CI8@cwi.nl>, Dik T. Winter <dik@cwi.nl> wrote: > > > | Does 32K 27-bit words count? > >We are talking real programming. That 32K 27-bit word machine was used > >as main (non-administrative) computer for two universities and one (or > >perhaps more) research institute. > > If you mean the machine I think you do, it also supported an incredibly > elegant hierarchical batch operating system, whose algorithms were provably > correct, and which is at the core of one of the finest CS papers ever > written. Might well be. It was the Electrologica X8, one of the best early designs I have seen. -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924131 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/