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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MS C open file limit on PC
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Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 19:49:44 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 10 19:49:44 1987
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> ... Operating system
> imposed limits on the order of 20 files are extremely common.
> It seems to be a favourite number with operating systems
> implementors...

This is at least partly because the limit was 20 in Unix V7, which was the
(more or less) direct ancestor of practically every existing Unix system
and was also a major influence on non-Unix systems.
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