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| 1137.1 | | LJSRV2::KALIKOW | Live... from InterOp/LasVegas!! | Thu Mar 30 1995 11:07 | 8 |
| I, for one, have never heard it -- the only thing that comes to mind
is "... since Hector was a pup" but that doesn't have the MobyMinnow
alliteration in its favor.
... perhaps you're unconsciously recollecting an ancient & honorable
DECcie, Martin Minow?? :-)
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| 1137.2 | | RT128::KENAH | Do we have any peanut butter? | Thu Mar 30 1995 11:41 | 1 |
| They asked about Martin in the other string, as well. %^}
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| 1137.3 | | RECV::PARODI | John H. Parodi DTN 381-1640 | Thu Mar 30 1995 12:56 | 8 |
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Hmmm, no one has waxed eloquent about the usage of "moby" as
a unit of measurement for 36-bit memory... It was a long time ago and I
forget how many thousand 36-bit words made up a moby, but I distinctly
recall people talking about the upper and lower mobys (mobies?) of
memory.
JP
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| 1137.4 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Thu Mar 30 1995 17:29 | 2 |
| And those sizes of memory were already minnows in actuality before the
name moby was assigned to them.
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| 1137.5 | | RECV::PARODI | John H. Parodi DTN 381-1640 | Fri Mar 31 1995 06:42 | 14 |
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Norman, I don't think so. First off, a 'meg' of memory for the
KA/KI/KL/KS machines was 4.5 times bigger than a megabyte for a vax or
risc machine.
Second, "moby" was in use long before I came to Digital in 1979. And in
1971 I was given an account on ALGOL::, which was shared by 30 or so
people. It had 256 Kbytes of memory and this was not a particularly
small system for the time.
And to close this circle, wasn't 'minnow' the internal code name for
the KS-20 processor?
JP
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| 1137.6 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Sun Apr 02 1995 19:07 | 6 |
| OK, I will grant that in 1971, 4.5 megabytes was not a small system.
However, 256 Kbytes was small. The word "minicomputer" was invented
for a reason, not particularly memory size, but equally accurate in
that regard.
-- Norman Diamond
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