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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Multics bloat??? Are you sure???
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Date: 6 Dec 90 23:57:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Dec  6 17:57:00 1990


Mutlics segments are/were limited to 262K (or less, I don't remember
exactly).  Systems like 4.3BSD and System 5.0 move beyond these
PDP-11ish limitations into the modern world, where files can be 20
megabytes and filesystems can have 100,000 inodes or more, filenames
can be arbitrary length, etc. etc. etc.  If you had to use Multics
today you'd be screaming in pain due to the hardwired limitations.

- Don