Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!pdxgate!eecs.cs.pdx.edu!bartonr From: bartonr@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (None Of The Above) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Script bits Message-ID: <1648@pdxgate.UUCP> Date: 16 Feb 91 19:30:58 GMT Sender: news@pdxgate.UUCP Reply-To: bartonr@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (None Of The Above) Lines: 9 In article <1991Feb13.013917.22130@sugar.hackercorp.com>, Peter da Silva writes: > UNIX has 16 and they've run out long ago. Sure it uses 9 instead of 4 on > protection, but that leaves them an extra 3 bits... and they don't even have > an archive bit! AmigaDOS has 32 bits available, so I don't think we're in danger of running out anytime soon. ================================================================================