> What is huge about 96bits? in storage it is shorter than your name
Well multiply it by 12 million records and a 32bit key looks a lot more
attactive
> Now Sonny I remember in '85 I wrote a whole control system in Turbo Pascal
> that ran in a 48K TPA....whats a TPA!!.. I think my hearin aids broke....
So who are you calling Sonny? Wrote my first database on a 16k desktop
HP in something like Basic in 1980. (And then there was the finite element
modeller in Algol on the old Burroughs in 1978 before that...). I come over
and teach you but my walking stick is broke.
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