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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!giac1.oscs.montana.edu!osycs From: osycs@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Craig Spannring) Subject: Re: Largest file size for 386BSD ? Message-ID: <1992Nov9.090041.25116@coe.montana.edu> Keywords: n Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) 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 Lines: 24 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. -- ========================================================================= Six of one, 110 (base 2) of | Craig Spannring --- (406) 994-6128 another. | osycs.giac1.oscs.montana.edu ----------------------------+ Geographic Information & Analysis Center