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From: redrose@coho.halcyon.com (Joan L. Brewer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Question on OS's
Date: 3 Jun 1995 20:06:46 GMT
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Eric van Bezooijen (ericvb@Sun.COM) wrote:
: J Wunsch (j@narcisa.sax.de) wrote:
: : [c.o.3.q is rmgroup'ed]

: : For a 64-bit CPU, the addressable space is 2^64 = 1 TB.

: This is a really dumb point, and it's a waste of bandwidth, but
: 2^64 != 1 Tb

: 2^32 = 2^10 * 2^10 * 2^10 * 2^2 = 4 Gigabytes

: 2^64 = 2^10 * 2^10 * 2^10 * 2^10 * 2^24 = 2^24 Terabytes = 16,777,216 Tb

: That's a lot of space!

: "No one will ever need more than 16,777,216 Tb of space"
: 			- Bill Gates in 2023

I get into trouble for this all the time boys, but I'm on the 
alt.fan.bill-gates user group and I saw this post, when I looked at the 
list of new groups, this one isn't mentioned. What is this about and how 
did it get into our group? Just curious.... : ) Can someone tell me what 
this was all about?  I'm beginning to think that anything with Mr. Gates' 
name in it gets posted here and to a number of other groups. Perhaps its 
a software bug or some conspiracy agaisnt Microsoft? J~


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