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On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 13:03 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Paul Sutton wrote: > When I wur a lad, the first Unix system I play with had 128Kwords of > 16-bit core memory (ie 256KB) on a 16-bit processor (pdp11) and that > supported half a dozen users on glass teletypes doing editing, document > preparation, program compiling (Pascal & C) and so on. I'm not after going > back to those days, but an example of how far we've come is that todays ls > command occupies 96KB on disk - that would have been unthinkable back > then. (and that's just the half of it - we didn't have dynamic library > linking then either!) > > but maybe it's just me... :) > > Gordon > > yup its been downhill all the way since the OS moved off real floppy floppy disks and went on an internal harddrive... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html