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		Koshkin on March 2, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy IIRC, the original (1969) version of UNIX was designed to run on a computer with 24 kilobytes of RAM.

AceJohnny2 on March 2, 2017 | [–]

Oh the days without process isolation and memory management.

aap_ on March 2, 2017 | [–]

The original UNIX ran on a PDP-7, which didn't have bytes. The memory was 8k of 18 bit words.

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