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From: mac@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block" (really: byte != 8 bits)
Message-ID: <1787@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 09:30:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: uvacs.1787
Posted: Mon Jul 20 09:30:29 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 04:25:53 EDT
References: <218@astra.necisa.oz> <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <2792@phri.UUCP> <23801@sun.uucp>
Organization: University of Virginia
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Summary: multics addressing

In article <23801@sun.uucp>, dchen%rainier@Sun.COM (David Chenevert) writes:
>   I'm curious about Multics file size being limited by 2^36 =
>   64 billion bytes? Were those guys using triple-sided disks or what?

Multics segment offsets (hence file addresses) were limited to 18 bits.