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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!newsfeed.acns.nwu.edu!firewall!ceco!root From: John Hobson <jhobson@ceco.ceco.com> Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things X-Nntp-Posting-Host: gandhi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <328FA2B0.3200@ceco.ceco.com> Sender: root@ceco.ceco.com (Operator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Commonwealth Edison References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <328386bc.112278367@news.ov.com> <562i2k$f3a@kirin.wwa.com> <steve.847913388@fastnet.prd.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 23:41:36 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4c) Lines: 16 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26508 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1542 alt.folklore.computers:124785 Steve Blinkhorn wrote: properly. > > 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. How about writing FORTRAN on an IBM 1620 with 4000 12-bit words of memory? Been there, done that. (As a line from one of my favourite Monty Python skits goes, "Oh, we used to dream of living in a corridor. Would have been a palace to us.") -- John Hobson |Short dayes, sharp dayes, Unix Support Group |Long nights come on apace. ComEd, Chicago, IL, USA |Ah, who will hide us from jhobson@ceco.ceco.com |The winter's face? -- Thomas Nashe