John Pickering wrote:
>
> Richard Gambrell asks ...
>
> >Someone knows, I'm sure:
>
> >What is so fundamental about a 2 or 4 GB limit on files size
> >(for both MPE and HPUX)?
>
> How about  2**32 = 4,294,967,296 and 2**31 = 2,147,483,648  ??
 
 
Sure, but way *so* fundamental that it is hard to change? Is it the
performance impact of 64 bit integer calculations on a 32bit word
machine? Is it the code optimizations needed for good performance or
something else?
 
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