A computer issue, how should I deal with this? Best solution?
Doug Sutherland
doug at proficio.ca
Fri Jun 22 22:52:54 EDT 2007
Butch wrote:
The only thing xp is stupid about is it won't let you define or set up
partitions larger than 32767 gb. Now, that number reminds me of
intiger basic.
2 to the power of 16 = 32768 so that's a 16-bit address.
Same reason why integers max out at 32768 if 16-bit numbers.
Remember the old 640kb limit in DOS? Apparently IBM said
nobody would ever use that much memory hehe. Now you can
buy terrabyte drives for cheap.
-- Doug
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