Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM wrote:
"Chase, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John
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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-
I think that is no problem, recall the saying "640K is more than enough...".
More recently there was a discussion how to fill the 64bit memory range with
data. To begin with, every sandgrain on earth could be put in there. But
then again, each grain has a color, a structure, a composition, found on
some place on earth, age, history etc., so it is like storageroom on the
loft of your house: whatever its size, it will always eventually fill up and
you will need more space.
Why grains, why data ?
It is enough to install new version of Windows.
Win 3.0 could be cut to occupy approx. 1.6 MB, Windows 3.1 took about
10-20MB (approx. 5 MB at least), Win95 maybe 40 MB, Win98 approx. 100MB,
Win XP is over 1GB.
Every con has colour, age, history...
<g>
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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