On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:30 AM, R.S. <[email protected]>wrote:
> W dniu 2013-11-21 18:11, John Gilmore pisze: > > Why the magic number of 123 extents per volume? 127 is more >> plausible. What else is going on here? >> > Well. Why 59 volumes per volume, why 140 bytes per VTOC records? Why DSN > is limited to 44 characters? > > Why IDE HDD limit was stupidly increased from ~500MB to 8.4GB? > Why PC XT was limited to 640kB RAM (ok, it could be 1MB)? > Why... > (time for my pills) > Like the Bursar of the Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork, Diskworld's "dried frog" pills? ref: http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/Dried_frog_pills > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
