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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 11:22:16 -0500
Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> In article <31E53C2B.41C67EA6@inuxs.att.com>,
> John S. Dyson <dyson@inuxs.att.com> wrote:
> >
> >Y'know, I usually don't care how big my D$$K is until someone starts
> >making theirs look bigger than it really is...
> 
> Nyaah nyaah, I have a 2GB D$$K in my home machine. AND I modified df to
> actually print out numbers that are twice as large, so it _looks_ like I
> have a 4GB D$$K. So there!
> 
> Now somebody is going to tell me they have a 20GB RAID D$$K that does
> mirroring and striping in hardware. Damn, that's unfair,
> 
I know, do you know that I got a serious response from someone who
apparently had less of a sense of humor than we do? :-).

John