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From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem cole)
Subject: [TUHS] Make love
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 13:04:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4292F6C0-EB21-46D3-B77B-7AB0F77D0CD9@ccc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150801035030.GG27056@mcvoy.com>

MULTICS - Many Unbelievably Large Tables In Core Simultaneously 

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> On Jul 31, 2015, at 11:50 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 01:20:14PM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>>> On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Warner Losh wrote:
>>> 
>>> I know for sure my make love memories come from RSTS/E 7.2 running TECO 
>>> on a PDP-11/23 back in ???82 or ???83. I???d somehow gotten it into my head 
>>> that it was a BSD thing that???d been scrubbed by the same people that 
>>> scrubbed
>> 
>> Ah, TECO...  Type your name into it to see what it does.
>> 
>>> ???you can tune a file system, but you can???t tuna fish??? from tunfs(8).
>> 
>> One of the world's best messages; it's right up there with ENOBALLS 
>> (Unable to reproduce).
>> 
>> And please, no EMACS (editor too large)...
> 
> EMACS = Eight megs and constantly swapping.  That's how I heard it.  And
> that was in the the days of 4MB Sun machines, if you had 8, holy shit, 
> that was cool!
> 
> Am I the only guy who looks at 32GB (gigabyte!!!) USB sticks and shakes
> his head in amazement?  Modern processors have more L3 *cache* than Sun
> workstations had memory.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-01 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-31 17:23 Norman Wilson
2015-07-31 21:05 ` Warner Losh
2015-07-31 23:48   ` John Cowan
2015-08-01  3:48     ` Larry McVoy
2015-08-01  2:42   ` scj
2015-08-02  1:35     ` Mary Ann Horton
2015-08-02  9:45     ` arnold
2015-08-10 17:51       ` scj
2015-08-01  3:20   ` Dave Horsfall
2015-08-01  3:36     ` Steve Nickolas
2015-08-01 11:19       ` Milo Velimirovic
2015-08-01 11:28         ` Milo Velimirovic
2015-08-01  3:50     ` Larry McVoy
2015-08-01  4:53       ` Steve Nickolas
2015-08-01 17:02       ` Clem cole
2015-08-01 17:04       ` Clem cole [this message]
2015-08-01  7:21     ` Warner Losh
2015-08-01 11:16       ` Ronald Natalie
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-08-01 11:03 Norman Wilson
2015-07-31  0:16 Nemo
2015-07-30 21:11 Norman Wilson
2015-07-30 20:00 Dave Horsfall
2015-07-30 20:03 ` John Cowan
2015-07-31 16:32   ` ron
2015-07-31 16:39     ` John Cowan
2015-07-30 20:37 ` Ori Idan
2015-07-30 20:45   ` Chet Ramey
2015-07-30 20:51   ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2015-07-31 16:09     ` random832
2015-07-31 16:40       ` Warner Losh
2015-07-31 17:00         ` Ed Skinner

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