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From: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Date: 20 Jan 1996 16:38:59 -0800
Organization: Network Appliance
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Andrew Gierth <andrewg@microlise.co.uk> writes:
>  - maximum processes per user (this can be increased without a reboot)

Casper H.S. Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl> wrote:
>This is a very common limit (found in SunOS 4/Solaris 2, but probably dating
>back to BSD 4.x).

Try "dating back to V7".  (No, Berkeley didn't invent it.)