Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!sci.kun.nl!phoibos!ge From: ge@phoibos.cs.kun.nl (Ge Weijers) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Extremely Fast Filesystems Message-ID: <2093@wn1.sci.kun.nl> Date: 13 Aug 90 13:05:16 GMT References: <13667@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Aug7.190719.7907@caen.engin.umich.edu> <1990Aug7.205747.14206@caen.engin.umich.edu> <31000@super.ORG> Sender: root@sci.kun.nl Lines: 18 rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich) writes: ]And once it gets enough ram we will run out of address bits again! this ]ds 5000 on my desk as 128 mb of memory, and can have 512 mb. That is getting ]uncomfortably close to running out of address bits. I figure we will be there ]in two years, at a bit a year. I guess there was a 32-bit war here before, ]judging by earlier comments, but fact is we are about to run out. I propose using 256 bits. With one atom/bit storage the universe will not support more than a few thousand PCs. Of course there should be an option to use segments (max 2^256 for uniformity's sake). Ge' Ge' Weijers Internet/UUCP: ge@cs.kun.nl Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, (uunet.uu.net!cs.kun.nl!ge) University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1 tel. +3180612483 (UTC+1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, the Netherlands UTC+2 march/september