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From: drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re:  Disk address size in V2.0
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Date: 11 Oct 90 16:24:36 GMT
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At the risk of being pedantic, I'll vote for 4 byte pointers on disk.
I think that the 3 byte pointers may represent a micro-optimization
and, as an educational tool, MINIX should go for clarity not cleverness
(which I understand to be your position as well).

	 David

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