Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site hoptoad.uucp Path: utzoo!hoptoad!gnu From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: alt.flame Subject: Abbreviation flame re: "20 mg" hard drives, etc. Message-ID: <3375@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 06:29:21 EST Article-I.D.: hoptoad.3375 Posted: Mon Nov 23 06:29:21 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Nov-87 21:27:14 EST References: <1422@rtech.UUCP> Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 10 joan@rtech.UUCP (Joan Apodaca) wrote: > best possible configuration, it would have a 20 mg hard drive, 1.2 mg > floppy and 1 mg of memory. Hmm, I don't think I've ever seen a 20 milligram hard drive. And a milligram of main memory would probably only hold a few thousand bits... :-) -- {pyramid,ptsfa,amdahl,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com Love your country but never trust its government. -- from a hand-painted road sign in central Pennsylvania