Mystery of chroot
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Mon Jul 23 08:51:12 UTC 2007
Les wrote:
> Yes, Solaris is Unix, and runs on x86 and lots of other architectures.
> As to the big machines in really cold rooms, most modern desktops have
> more power than the early Unix systems did. In 1972 a 10Mb disk was
> huge. I worked on a 40Mb disk which had air pumps, pnumatic pistons to
> drive the heads and ran at 3600 RPM with platters that were about 20" in
> diameter if I remember right.
Are you sure they were pneumatic? When I worked on those types of disk
systems in the 70's they were hydraulic.
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