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From: kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: UNIX limits (was Re: All about sys 7.0 <long>)
Summary: almost
Message-ID: <1906@camex.COM>
Date: 2 Apr 91 17:40:57 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.144323.21504@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1897@camex.COM> <1991Apr1.222658.3289@waikato.ac.nz>
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In article <1991Apr1.222658.3289@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
>In article <1897@camex.COM>, kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg) mentions
>that System 7.0 has a dynamically-allocated array of file control blocks
>(FCBs), so that the number of simultaneously-open files is limited only by the
>fact that FCB offsets must fit into a 16-bit word.

'Fraid not.  Quote screwup time.  I would *like* to have said that,
but that part was actually written one of those smart Apple people.
My part was just a vague and tentative comment that I thought FCBs
were dymanic under 7.0.

(Nevertheless, I do feel a bit smug to have been told that I was right
and be backed up with impressive sounding details.  Always like it
when that happens.)

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