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To: sm1th who wrote (454)	2/5/2017 6:04:31 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1316

Yeah, in about '79-80 our company bought three VAX 11/780s, each with 2-300GB drives. We thought we could never use it up. That didn't last long. I didn't work with them that much but the file system had this versioning thing where you could tell it to keep up to 99 versions of a file. People just stopped deleting crap until the drives were full. We were a FORTRAN shop and instead of using files people were just reading in files, changing them in memory, and writing them back out. Big files. It was just stupid. I have never quit writing efficient code. It is just part of what you did back then.