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From: mike.ab3ap@gmail.com (Mike Markowski)
Subject: [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:55:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbf048a5-374a-b08b-21ce-f67ed46264ef@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180321235033.GJ9739@mcvoy.com>

On 03/21/2018 07:50 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 07:17:11PM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote:
>> I used to regularly compress sources of various distributions (not UNIX, but
>> inn, pine, elm, etc) that I compiled, just to save space.
>>
>> And that was in the early 90's when I could buy a 1GB SCSI drive for $1000.
>> I can't imagine working off of the early hard drives...
> 
> I was sys admin for a Masscomp with a 40MB disk and 20 users.  That
> was, um, "fun".

I remember Masscomp...  We used one (I forget model) in the field in the 
late 80s in the back of a tractor trailer.  We'd capture radar signals 
with it because it allowed data acquisition to not be swapped out.  It 
was a very expensive failure if, just as you started getting the short 
radar return, something like system logging swapped you out for a little!

Mike Markowski


  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-22  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-21 14:17 [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised Noel Chiappa
2018-03-21 15:03 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 16:18   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 17:28     ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 17:33       ` George Michaelson
2018-03-21 17:50         ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 19:49           ` A. P. Garcia
2018-03-21 19:37         ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 17:34       ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22  2:24         ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-21 17:39       ` WIlliam Cheswick
2018-03-21 17:52         ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 17:56       ` Nemo
2018-03-21 18:01         ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 18:04       ` Dan Cross
2018-03-21 19:56         ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 20:04           ` [TUHS] comments ( was daemons exorcised ) Earl Baugh
2018-03-21 20:18             ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 20:51               ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-21 20:13           ` [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 20:28             ` [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems Warren Toomey
2018-03-21 20:48               ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-21 22:18               ` William Corcoran
2018-03-21 23:02                 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-22  1:31                   ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 23:17                 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 23:50                   ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22  0:55                     ` Mike Markowski [this message]
2018-03-22  1:00                       ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 23:45               ` Warner Losh
2018-03-22  0:31                 ` Steve Johnson
2018-03-22  0:58               ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-22  1:27                 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22  1:59                   ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-22 14:46                   ` Steve Simon
2018-03-22 15:22                     ` ron minnich
2018-03-22 16:22                     ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-22 16:32                       ` arnold
2018-03-22 20:20                         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-03-22 16:33                       ` Kurt H Maier
2018-03-23  1:31                   ` Charles Anthony
2018-03-22  1:40 Noel Chiappa
2018-03-22  2:19 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-03-22 13:49 Doug McIlroy
2018-03-22 14:29 ` Nemo
2018-03-23  1:54 Doug McIlroy

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