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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!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: 19 Nov 1996 09:27:09 -0000 Organization: Psychometric Research & Development Ltd Lines: 15 Message-ID: <steve.848395459@fastnet.prd.co.uk> References: <328386bc.112278367@news.ov.com> <steve.847913388@fastnet.prd.co.uk> <E0v6zG.1oC@cwi.nl> <56fdha$r9i@verdi.nethelp.no> <56hhqk$5kj@polo.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: fastnet.prd.co.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26537 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1561 alt.folklore.computers:124885 In <56hhqk$5kj@polo.demon.co.uk> john@polo.demon.co.uk (John Winters) writes: >>How about 64K 16-bit words? Are we trying to set a new record here? :-) >How about 1K 8-bit bytes (and that included the display memory)? :-) >John Now you're talking. I take it the display was full-screen bitmapped with interleaved inter-cycle dynamic refresh and recombinant bit-packed pseudo-words? ;-) (for those who don't remember) -- Steve Blinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk>