7 Feb
2006
7 Feb
'06
19:25
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 13:56, David Wright wrote:
I still remember the PDP and VAX, you got a bundle of reel-to-reel tapes and 5 pulped major desiduous forests in the packaging :-P
My boxed SCO Xenix SVR4 for the 80286 was probably four times the size of SUSE's 9.3 retail box and IIRC came with about fifteen 5.25" floppies and four or five *books*... leading me to believe there must be a logarithmically inverse ratio between the code and hard copy documentation. If the trend continues, we should soon be up to a half-dozen DVDs and a postcard with "Quick Start" bullets on it ;-) - Carl