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- From: osycs@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Craig Spannring)
- Subject: Re: Largest file size for 386BSD ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.090041.25116@coe.montana.edu>
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- Organization: Geographic Information & Analysis Center Montana State University
- References: <1992Nov6.031757.20766@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <1992Nov6.173454.17896@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 09:00:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.173454.17896@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov6.031757.20766@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
- >>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.
- >
- >Get around the problem:
- >
- [ 4 suggestions deleted. ]
- >
- >I don't think it will be an issue that soon anyway.
-
- Not too long ago I used to think that way also. Then my boss came up
- to me because he couldn't edit a text file in vi. I scratched
- my head for a moment then did an ls -alg just for the heck of it.
- The stupid text file was 93 MEGABYTES! Arg. I think the limitation
- will hit big in less than ten years. Hopefully by then all the machines
- will have 64 bit words and the maximum file size will grow accordingly.
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