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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!knews.uk0.vbc.net!fastnet.prd.co.uk!fastnet.prd.co.uk!steve From: steve@fastnet.prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 17 Nov 1996 13:46:14 -0000 Organization: Psychometric Research & Development Ltd Lines: 13 Message-ID: <steve.848238223@fastnet.prd.co.uk> References: <328386bc.112278367@news.ov.com> <562i2k$f3a@kirin.wwa.com> <steve.847913388@fastnet.prd.co.uk> <E0v6zG.1oC@cwi.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: fastnet.prd.co.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26500 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1538 alt.folklore.computers:124768 In <E0v6zG.1oC@cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes: >In article <steve.847913388@fastnet.prd.co.uk> steve@fastnet.prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) writes: > > Next we'll be hearing from people who know what it was like to have no > > more than 100K 36-bit words to do real programming in. >Does 32K 27-bit words count? Oh, all right, I suppose so, but you'll have to put up with me being boring about writing natural language generation software in 56Kbytes on an Apple][ that still works 15 years on on a Unix box. -- Steve Blinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk>