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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