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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: History of PC-Unices
Message-ID: <Do7s7w.8nK.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <4hn5kf$4pp@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4ht83p$dfi@park.uvsc.edu> <kaleb.826542334@exalt>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:23:56 GMT
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In article <kaleb.826542334@exalt> kaleb@x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY) writes:
>How do you define "small"? 0.0 was publicly available on the net, but it
>didn't grok FDISK partitions, so a lot of people who might have liked to
>use it (like me) could not, not without abandoning their other partitions.
Ha! Some people just have no dedication. I immediately went out
and bought a new disk and a floating point co-processor...
-- Richard
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"Hither turn thy steps, hither come to thy death and for Camilla
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