8 Feb
2012
8 Feb
'12
10:23 a.m.
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Liam Proven wrote:
You know how Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created
Unix on a PDP-7 in 1969?
Well around 1971 they upgraded to a PDP-11 with a pair of RK05 disk packs (1.5
megabytes each) for storage.
My RK05 packs have 2.34 MB (2400 kB to be precise) each, so ...
the user directories to there so the OS could consume
all the space on both
disks and grow to THREE WHOLE MEGABYTES (ooooh!).
... this would have grown to almost five MB.
Actually, I have a stripped-down installation of 2.9BSD on one single RK05
pack including swap space.
Christian