In <[email protected]>, on
12/08/2015
at 06:49 PM, Paul Gilmartin
<[email protected]> said:
>I think an obstacle is not having enough bits in the NOTE/POINT
>object to address so many blocks.
It's not that there aren't enough bits, but that so much existing code
depends on the current format.
>Look at the bizarre way CCHHR is dissected
>to allow more than 54 GB on a DASD volume.
Not much more bizzare than on the 2321.
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