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echo: os2prog
to: Duncan Christie
from: Mike Bilow
date: 1995-09-02 18:01:14
subject: Re: OS/2

Duncan Christie wrote in a message to James Blackwell:

 > That would mean you would have some combination of 8 Gigs of ram/hard drive
 > space. Anyone with that much power wouldn't be using os/2.

 DC> Eight gigabytes?  I thought they used a 32 bit address
 DC> (thats 4 gigabytes).   

But my hard drive is accessed in sectors, each of which has 512 bytes. 
OS/2 addresses the sectors with a 32-bit number, so the limit is 2
terabytes.
 
-- Mike


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