Guys,

The file size depends on the file system where it resides not of the
CPU. Of course up to a degree. I remember from my os/2 days creating tar
files of the whole system, I could do it in a JFS formatted partition
but not in a fat because of size limitations. 

-=terry(Denver)=-

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 22:31 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Monday 12 March 2007 22:18, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > On Monday 12 March 2007 21:04, Mike Noble wrote:
> > > ...
> > >
> > > 4 GB is the limit of a 32bit processor.
> >
> > Not really.
> >
> > 4 x 2^32 is the limit of a 32-bit word (unsigned).
> 
> Duh...
> 
> 2^32 is the limit of an unsigned 32-bit word, of course.
> 
> 2^30 is a "binary billion", and four of those are 4 gigs.
> 
> 
> RRS

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