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From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Small enough to be understood... (was Re: Looking for Computer Folklore)
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Date: 27 Feb 89 18:47:32 GMT
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In-reply-to: werme@Alliant.COM (Ric Werme)

In article <3005@alliant.Alliant.COM>, werme@Alliant (Ric Werme) writes:
| 
|	     4N72 was the last system that could run off a DECtape, I believe,
| and 4S72 was small enough and simple enough so one person could understand the
| whole thing without too much trouble.

"Small enough..."

sigh.

And to think, a long time ago, they said that about UNIX, too.

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