[TUHS] Make love

Clem cole clemc at ccc.com
Sun Aug 2 03:04:21 AEST 2015


MULTICS - Many Unbelievably Large Tables In Core Simultaneously 

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> On Jul 31, 2015, at 11:50 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 01:20:14PM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>>> On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Warner Losh wrote:
>>> 
>>> I know for sure my make love memories come from RSTS/E 7.2 running TECO 
>>> on a PDP-11/23 back in ???82 or ???83. I???d somehow gotten it into my head 
>>> that it was a BSD thing that???d been scrubbed by the same people that 
>>> scrubbed
>> 
>> Ah, TECO...  Type your name into it to see what it does.
>> 
>>> ???you can tune a file system, but you can???t tuna fish??? from tunfs(8).
>> 
>> One of the world's best messages; it's right up there with ENOBALLS 
>> (Unable to reproduce).
>> 
>> And please, no EMACS (editor too large)...
> 
> EMACS = Eight megs and constantly swapping.  That's how I heard it.  And
> that was in the the days of 4MB Sun machines, if you had 8, holy shit, 
> that was cool!
> 
> Am I the only guy who looks at 32GB (gigabyte!!!) USB sticks and shakes
> his head in amazement?  Modern processors have more L3 *cache* than Sun
> workstations had memory.
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