[Beowulf] A press release
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Robert G. Brown rgb at phy.duke.eduThu Jul 10 04:54:55 PDT 2008
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Tony Travis wrote: > Chris Samuel wrote: >> [...] >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch >> >> I remember when I could bring the complete kernel sources >> home on a single 3.5" floppy disk. Compressed, mind you, >> not this new fangled gzip! Then came 0.9.15, 1.8MB compressed.. > > Hello, Chris. > > 3.5" floppy - you were lucky! > > I 'ad t' run th'entire Minix on half a broken low-density 5.25" floppy, and > father would beat me wi a stick for wastin' precious disk space... > > ...and he'd complain that there's nowt wrong wi' th'old 8" floppies! > > Eee, by gum them were probably th'happiest days of mi life... > > [I'm from Lancashire, not Yorkshire, BTW] > > Tony. OK, in a minute you'll have me reminiscing about booting from paper tape and havin' to drill me own 'oles wit' me teeth... ;-) rgb -- Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977
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