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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Question on OS's
Date: 6 Jun 1995 11:44:43 +0200
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Eric van Bezooijen <ericvb@Sun.COM> wrote:
>J Wunsch (j@narcisa.sax.de) wrote:
>: 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
...
>2^64 = 2^10 * 2^10 * 2^10 * 2^10 * 2^24 = 2^24 Terabytes = 16,777,216 Tb
You win the prize! (I've been too lazy to do this calculation for me,
and i've simply remembered something ``i have heard'' about 1 TB. You
proved me wrong... :-)
>"No one will ever need more than 16,777,216 Tb of space"
> - Bill Gates in 2023
...when Windows 95 had just finished its final BETA cycle. ;)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)