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- From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Largest file size for 386BSD ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.031757.20766@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 03:17:57 GMT
- Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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- Original Unix has the largest file size of 4Gbyte, because it uses 24-bit
- pointer.(shouldn't it be 16Gbyte?)
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- What is the size for 386bsd?
- If it still uses 24-bit pointers, then the largest size is still 4Gbyte.
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- This will be an important issue because soon we'll have hundreds of gigabytes,
- instead of magabytes soon.
- It took the jump from tens mega to hundreds in just 10 years.
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- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
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