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From: jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA
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Subject: "progress" in operating systems...
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Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 23:41:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 23 23:41:23 1986
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Whatever happened to the kind of operating systems that used to run in 6 or 8
K bytes in a PDP-11?  Things like RSX-11M?  We used to do wondrous things in
32 K bytes including EVERYTHING.  When we went to 65 K it was sheer Heaven
(especially after DEC found and fixed those silly BPLs that should have been
BHSs and caused a lot of their own software to crash when the addresses went
negative all of a sudden).

What I'm trying to say is:  megabytes are nice, but why not USE THEM for
something USEFUL rather than squandering them in overgrown operating systems
and inefficient applications programs?  Reminds me of IBM's universal answer
for all problems:  buy more memory.  Buy a faster processor.

Just think what you could accomplish with a 68000 and even 512K of memory if
you programmed the way they HAD TO when 65K was a BIG machine!

-John Sangster
jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa

"Paper Tape Forever!!!!"