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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John
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> [ snip ]
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> What?!? Only 64-bit? Sun has announced that they have a
> 128-bit capable filesystem (3.4E38 bytes)! We __must__
> respond to this blatant attack by announcing a 512 bit
> capable filesystem. This is approximately 1.34E154 bytes.
> We'll just convert the entire structure of the Earth into a
> data repository to contain this amount of data <yeah, sure>.
According to some physicists, there aren't that many atoms in the known
universe, so somebody would have to invent a new means of "virtualizing"
that much storage. :-)
-jc-
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