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Re: [LUG] unix is 40 years old this year

 

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Paul Sutton wrote:

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I claim boring old guy!!! (Although I've just shaved off the grey beard I was sporting at the last meet!)

I first used a Unix system when I was 19... That was 28 years ago, so I didn't quite get into it in it's first decade. It was Unix v6 and was cosidered old then... Running on a PDP11/40 with 128K words (16-bit) of magnetic core memory, a 3MB fixed disk and a removable 1.5MB drive.

And here we are, whinging about needing a 'PC' wih 4GB of RAM for daily use...

Gordon

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