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From: aglew@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: 64 bits
Message-ID: <28200249@mcdurb>
Date: 15 Dec 88 16:44:00 GMT
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Nf-From: mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM!aglew    Dec 15 10:44:00 1988


I would encourage everyone to read George Gobel's article
on the various helical scan tape devices in comp.periphs.

In it he makes several comments about 32 bit overflow:
can't write a file > 2.0GB; must lie to "dump" to get estimate
of tape size correct due to 32 bit overflow.

It's long past time that computer systems - compilers and/or
ALUs - supported >32 bit integers. 64 bits here we come!