In article <mailman.14.1277891765.1673.python-l...@python.org>, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote:
> Jeez. PDP-11s, 16 bit addressing, tiny tiny disc drives! What you talking about, tiny? An RK-05 was huge! Why would anybody ever need more than that? > The original V7 (and probably earlier) UNIX filesystem has 16 byte directory > entries Certainly earlier. I used v6, and it was like that there. I'm reasonably sure it pre-dated v6, however. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
