22 Jan
2018
22 Jan
'18
4:36 a.m.
I seem to remember that at some point early on, we
spent some of our
capital budget on buying another 16K bytes for the PDP-11. As I
recall, the deal was that the OS got 8K and users got 8K. I also
recall that that purchase was 20% of our capital budget for the
year...
Doug, did I remember this correctly?
Steve
Things did happen that way. I don't specifically remember the
numbers, but those you state have the ring of truth.
Memory came in (expensive) 4K increments. When the keepers of
Unix in the Charlotte wire center wanted to add 4K, their
management consented only on the condition that the wizards
in Research would confirm that roposed new functionality
really required it.
doug