In a recent note, McKown, John said: > Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 15:37:00 -0500 > > 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>. > OK. Scalable. If the language for commands between the CPU and the storage control unit were the ever-so-fashionable XML, there would be no fixed limit on address size.
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