From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 12:40:12 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? In-Reply-To: <20170225143255.GH21761@mcvoy.com> References: <20170225141738.f3uauxhasru7gsb3@ancienthardware.org> <20170225143255.GH21761@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On 25 February 2017 at 09:32, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 03:17:38PM +0100, Arno Griffioen wrote: >> Worked quite well in the 4MB DRAM available on these cards. The later SVR4 >> didn't fare so well.. Paged itself to death unless you had 8 or even (gasp!) >> 16MB. > > Back in the days of 4MB SPARC machines (and 68K machines) we joked > that EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. Ah, EMACS jokes (though this be off-topic)! I remember one cartoon, which I cannot place, of someone at a terminal and a platter flying through the room having broken free from the drive pack, the caption reading "EMACS tends to hit the disc a little too often." N.