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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Another Annoying Microport Inquiry
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Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 16:52:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 30 16:52:27 1987
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In article <520@drexel.UUCP> rickers@drexel.UUCP (Rick Wargo) writes:
>The maximum is about 16 Meg (~ 32000 blocks)

That's why I put "infinite" in quotes.
It's easy to see what the real Microport implementation constraint is
(number of bits used to hold a block number), but one would think it
would be 16 bits (64K blocks) rather than 15.