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Date:      Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:32:26 -0500
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Subject:   Re: Removing CVS from HEAD
Message-ID:  <0D39CBAA-06F1-403E-8235-74CF6AE208EB@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120911150125.GH20762@e-new.0x20.net>
References:  <CAF6rxgnZGjzm230sZXVXxmE7wPowF_BZqbwRjdvz8oV-03gS=A@mail.gmail.com> <504E4FE6.1020703@FreeBSD.org> <20120911150125.GH20762@e-new.0x20.net>

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On Sep 11, 2012, at 10:01 AM, Lars Engels wrote:
>=20
> devel/cvs doesn't have any dependencies, its pre-compiled package has =
a
> size of 494 KBs, which even fits on a 1984 5,25" floppy disk twice.

In 1984 floppies were only 360kB...  Sure IBM introduced the 1.2MB =
floppies that year, but it was late in the year when the machines =
started showing up, and it was a few years before they were in wide =
spread use.

Nothing to do with the force of your argument, just a historical =
footnote from someone who lived through the time and used the 1.2MB =
floppies as a cheap replacement for the 400kb "quad" density disks I had =
to use up until that point for the RX-50 drives in my DEC Rainbow, and I =
could do that until I was actually in college.

Warner





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