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Koshkin
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The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy
IIRC, the original (1969) version of UNIX was designed to run on a computer with 24
kilobytes
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AceJohnny2
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Oh the days without process isolation and memory management.
aap_
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The original UNIX ran on a PDP-7, which didn't have bytes. The memory was 8k of 18 bit words.
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