On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:43:45 -0500, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:33:35PM -0800, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > > It is sort of sad in a nostalgic way that 32MB is not enough. > > My memory escapes me but I believe that this is more than Unix > > was invented on. > > Oh my yes. The first UNIX was written on a PDP-7, and, it had only a few *K* > of memory. > > -- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson ATT Labs -- god bless them both. They also did the C programming language. I forgot what limitation they wrote Unix to get around. Bill Joy with the contribution to the tcp/ip stack and the vi editor as well as BSD unix should not be forgotten as well. Unix is the history of an Operating System developed by almost organic natural means instead of sprouting whole from the head of one company or hierachy. Its a very interesting history if one has the patience to hunt it out. Sorry completely OT.
