Mystery of chroot

[David Boles]

on 7/23/2007 1:51 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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.


I honestly have no idea what it is that you GEEKS are talking about here.

But a long, long time ago.

I remember really large machines in really cold rooms with 'tapes' going
back an forth.  ;-)  This was remodels. And a really long time ago.

I really don't care these days. Bottom line is green works really well.
Much better than red.  ;-)

-- 

  David



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