From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] History repeating itself (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 09:57:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160728135739.GA14303@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160728112330.GP3375@yeono.kjorling.se>
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Michael Kjörling scripsit:
> But this time, very often it's _actually_ _someone
> else's computer_; it's not just sitting in some other department
> within the company.
Nothing new about that either: "service bureaus" have been around a
long time, notably for APL\360.
> Now all that's really missing is that stationwagon loaded with tapes
Now replaced by the Fedexed hard drive. Xkcd estimates that if they did
nothing else, Fedex would be able to transmit 14 petabits per second.
Companies dealing in big data often use this internally, and IIRC you
can donate content to the Internet Archive by sending them a disk.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
At times of peril or dubitation,
Perform swift circular ambulation,
With loud and high-pitched ululation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-28 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-27 20:28 [TUHS] Unix v6 problem with /tmp Mark Longridge
2016-07-27 20:31 ` William Pechter
2016-07-27 20:57 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-27 21:01 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-27 21:10 ` William Pechter
2016-07-28 0:49 ` Clem cole
2016-07-28 1:03 ` William Pechter
2016-07-28 11:23 ` [TUHS] History repeating itself (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp) Michael Kjörling
2016-07-28 12:18 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-28 13:57 ` John Cowan [this message]
2016-07-30 7:56 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-30 11:41 ` William Cheswick
2016-07-30 23:28 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-30 23:50 ` scj
2016-08-01 11:36 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-30 14:15 ` John Cowan
2016-07-30 15:30 ` [TUHS] History repeating itself Michael Kjörling
2016-07-28 1:03 ` [TUHS] Unix v6 problem with /tmp Clem cole
2016-07-28 23:16 ` [TUHS] environments/universes (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp) Sven Mascheck
2016-07-29 3:05 ` arnold
2016-07-29 14:14 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-29 13:55 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-31 4:25 [TUHS] History repeating itself " Rudi Blom
2016-08-01 1:08 ` John Cowan
2016-08-01 7:14 ` Rudi Blom
2016-08-01 17:11 ` scj
2016-08-01 18:32 ` Clem Cole
2016-08-02 22:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-08-03 11:53 Norman Wilson
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