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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 13:59:43 GMT
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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.
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