A computer issue, how should I deal with this? Best solution?

Butch Bussen butchb at shellworld.net
Fri Jun 22 23:20:17 EDT 2007


Been a long time since I thought about that.  Wonder how apple soft got 
around that and would you go up to 64 thousand in line numbers in basic, 
but intiger basic wouldn't.  Man I'm getting old I guess..
73s
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr

On Fri, 22 Jun 
2007, Doug Sutherland wrote:

> 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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