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From: bmarcum@iglou.iglou.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs
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In article <4mv2r7$ld3@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>,
Henry G. Juengst <juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
>the author of the source code). The problem was the binary compatibility.
>This also a problem for unix. Anyway, you impute that 32-bit address
>space (in fact 31 for the applications) is a problem. 31-bit address
>space means 2 Gigabyte memory. If it is a problem for you, you should
>discuss that in comp.os.vms or alt.stupidity.
>
32-bit address space also means 2 Gbyte disk drives or partitions, which 
is a stupid limit nowadays.  I wouldn't be surprised to see systems with 
gigabytes of RAM becoming commonplace in five or ten years.

-- 
Bill Marcum    bmarcum@iglou.com
On 22 July, 1996, at 6:00 pm GMT, everyone in the world     
just START HUMMING.  Those who don't know will freak.