Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 08:33:24 +0200 From: Michael Elbel <Michael.Elbel@consol.de> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed Message-ID: <19980914083324.A24354@consol.de> In-Reply-To: <19980912234507.N997@notabene.zer0.org>; from Gregory Sutter on Sat, Sep 12, 1998 at 11:45:07PM -0700 References: <9698.905291210@time.cdrom.com> <35F7CF17.E0C82BCA@softweyr.com> <19980910110605.B20261@notabene.zer0.org> <199809111215.OAA06968@fourier.int.consol.de> <19980912234507.N997@notabene.zer0.org>
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On Sat, Sep 12, 1998 at 11:45:07PM -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 02:15:28PM +0200, Michael Elbel wrote: > > In lists.freebsd.chat you write: > > > > >emacs (Eighteen Megs And Crashes Steadily, someone once told me) > > > > Shows you're way too young :) "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping" it is. > > Hey, I resemble that remark. > > > how far back you have to go that eight megs was lots of memory on a Unix > > That's farther back than my Unix history goes, but only by a little. 1983 - the days when we were overawed of that VAX 720. When, at least in Munich one still would take a Fortran class and work at one of those PDP/11s with the switches on the front panel. And be glad about it (we were the Electrical Engineering department) because those poor CS people still had to punch cards for their first language class. The joy of being allowed to hack on that gorgeous CP/M System with the 5 MHZ 8085 and the incredible 64 kB of memory all to ourselves. Not to forget the 5 MB of harddrive those things had. Can you imagine it, a CP/M system with a hard drive? Michael -- \|/ -O- Michael Elbel, ConSol* GmbH, - me@consol.de - 089 / 45841-256 /|\ Fermentation fault (coors dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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