On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:29:56 -0500, Chase, John wrote: > >Indeed, the combined capacity of all the DASD ever manufactured is >probably still too small to fully back even one 64-bit address space. >2^64 is a really large number!
I doubt that's still true. 2^64 is about 8 billion GiB, or about 8 million terabytes. With terabyte drives readily available today and most PC's shipping hundreds of GiB, a lot of DASD has been build. Of course, if you are only counting mainframe DASD.... Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
