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by jandrese
1016 days ago
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This part is frequently lost on people. Bell labs developed a multi-user operating system that supported multiple people logged in at the same time on a machine with 64 kilowords (144kB) of storage. Later development was done on a machine that supported a max of 4MB of memory and had to allow for hundreds of simultaneous logins. Keeping the code compact was a high priority, even over usability in some cases. |
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