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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Minor device numbers: too small!
Message-ID: <319@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Apr-84 15:46:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  5 15:46:49 1984
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Keywords: minor device number,terminals,future Unix releases

How long will it be before we hear: "User ID numbers: too small!"

Actually this has already happened.  The original unix used a char
to store the user id.  After all, more than 256 users on a PDP-8!
When the system grew they did some tricks of keeping track of who
had logged in.  Finally they went to ints for user ids.

					    Jerry Aguirre
    {hplabs|fortune|ios|tolerant|allegra|tymix}!oliveb!jerry