From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 09:57:40 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] History repeating itself (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp) In-Reply-To: <20160728112330.GP3375@yeono.kjorling.se> References: <57991A21.5030404@gmail.com> <5799234F.80108@gmail.com> <9A62D3AA-2905-44A6-B9F1-73644935AA70@ccc.com> <579959F6.3050803@gmail.com> <20160728112330.GP3375@yeono.kjorling.se> Message-ID: <20160728135739.GA14303@mercury.ccil.org> 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.