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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 20 2017, @04:06PM (14 children)
Now I'm curious...
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Monday March 20 2017, @04:23PM (7 children)
It's a story about the power of marketing teasers.
(Score: 3, Funny) by zocalo on Monday March 20 2017, @06:37PM (1 child)
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday March 20 2017, @07:43PM
Hes probably still compiling. Contemporary with the recent Xenix theme, way back in '93 I had a 40 MHz 386DX with 4 one meg SIMMs. You see back then each SIMM only provided 8 bits and 386 being a 32 bit bus, yeah, so SIMMs were installed in quads not pairs like today. Now 4 megs of ram could either run xwindows at 640x480 or so, OR I could add a couple megs of swap (like 4 or so) and compile a kernel in about two hours. I found some 256K SIMMs laying around for the taking because 1 meg 286 was kinda passe by '93 or so, and I installed all four bringing be up to 5 megs. The speed up on kernel compiles was much better than linear with memory and I used a lot less swap and a compile now only took maybe a half hour, which is a pretty good deal seeing as I paid "free" for the 256K SIMMs.
Maybe a few years later (but not many, like '94, '95 or so) I vaguely remember saving up quite a pile of money, like a months rent, and buying 4 meg simms such that I could install 4 of them to get 16 megs AND install the four 1 meg simms (removing the 256K simms) leaving me with a staggering 20 megs of ram. Which is a hell of a lot seeing as 40 meg IDE PATA drive was installed. I may have upgraded to a 120 meg IDE by then.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday March 20 2017, @07:56PM (2 children)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Tuesday March 21 2017, @12:17AM
what i was going to say: apparently an inverse relationship between the length of articles and commenting...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @01:36PM
Unflattering? People are so impressed with the other submissions that they are speechless.
(Score: 3, Funny) by iWantToKeepAnon on Monday March 20 2017, @11:45PM (1 child)
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
(Score: 2) by Webweasel on Tuesday March 21 2017, @11:20AM
I reckon it's some guy's name. Some guy named Gabbo.
Priyom.org Number stations, Russian Military radio. "You are a bad, bad man. Do you have any other virtues?"-Runaway1956
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 20 2017, @05:30PM (5 children)
Hi Curious, any reason you felt the need to tell us twice?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 20 2017, @07:04PM
Yeah, I'm curious about that!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Nerdfest on Monday March 20 2017, @07:21PM (3 children)
Perhaps he's "bi-curious"
(Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Monday March 20 2017, @07:28PM (2 children)
Given the Xenix 386 theme lately, I guess that would be "Xe Curious"
So if a unix is a eunuch then a XEnix is a xe nix which is a ...?
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday March 20 2017, @07:36PM (1 child)
Nicely done.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @03:12AM
But "Xe curious" would be interest in joining a certain very macho mercenary group formerly known as Blackwater? (And seriously, what kind of name is "Eric Prince", anyway?)