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From: rpw3@amdcad.AMD.COM (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64 bits
Message-ID: <23792@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 16 Dec 88 07:31:02 GMT
References: <28200249@mcdurb>
Reply-To: rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock)
Organization: [Consultant] San Mateo, CA
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In article <28200249@mcdurb> aglew@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM writes:

+---------------
| 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.
+---------------

Of course, it would have been a little nicer if people had used
unsigned numbers for unsigned quantities. I mean, 32 bits lets
you count 4.29+ GB, not 2GB....  ;-}   ;-}


Rob Warnock
Systems Architecture Consultant

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