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From: raymond@ganymede (Raymond Man)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Looking for Computer Folklore
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Date: 26 Feb 89 07:11:20 GMT
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In our department, the unit "linda" refers to either a measurement
of disk space or computer time used. This is in remembrance of our
colleague.

1 linda = 40 hours of Cray-XMP time 

origin:
"Darn,  I made a mistaken in my input and there goes my whole
 simulation run."
"How much computer time you nedd for a run ?"
"40."


1 linda = 40G bytes

origin:
"This is computing user services, we would like to talk to Linda."
"This is she."
"It seems you alone occupy half of our file storage system.
 Could you backup some of your files to tape ?"
.
.
.
"Say, Linda,  How large is the file system anyway?"
"I think it's around 80 gigabytes."

She now has her Ph.D. and works in St. Louis. Hope she is not reading
this but in case she does: "Linda, we all miss you."
Just call me `Man'.
raymond@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu