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"It's just easier to type" and other lies you believe

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[-] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They did, with core you could be paying for many dollars per bit of memory. They also often used teletypes, where you would pay in ink and time for every character.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Unix didn't run on core though, did it? I thought core was before its time

[-] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

A early models of PDP-11, the computer Unix was developed on, did use core.

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