Re: Record size limitation in RPG - MQ Series

["Keith Carpenter" <CarpCon@xxxxxxx>]

The 2000 byte size limit for data area happened to coincide with the
original max size for a CLP character variable.

BTW, 4Mb was the max for a model 7.  The original models were the 3 & 5.
The 3 could have as little as 512Kb and the 5 maxed out at 2Mb.   IIRC, CPF
Rel 6 required about 100Mb of DASD and it was much bigger than the earlier
releases.


Keith


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jt" <jt@xxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 8:09 PM
Subject: RE: Record size limitation in RPG - MQ Series


> Thanks I sit corrected, Mel, as was speaking in generalities when I said
> "same thing".  Should-a stated "basically the same".  (Would only add that
> allowing 16M for a UsrSpc, iirc, went back to the original design around
> late-70's/early-80's.  Back when the HUGEest 38's had mebbe 4M of memory..
> Well, CPF generaly had upper limits that were pretty foresightful for it's
> time (and mostly still are).)