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  • Subject: RE: why the 16meg space size limit?
  • From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:20:55 -0500
  • Importance: Normal

Leif, what's stopping them from using some of those leading zeros as real address bits in some future release?  As long as nothing requires them to be zero, they would be backwards compatible.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mi400@midrange.com [mailto:owner-mi400@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Leif Svalgaard
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:26 AM
To: Mark S. Waterbury
Cc: MI400 List
Subject: Re: why the 16meg space size limit?

The existence of the 16-Mb limit is (like DOS's 640Kb) of course the
death knell of the AS/400 architechture. It can only be removed by
the same kind of antics that plagued DOS. The one mistake you
cannot recover from is limitations of the number of 'address' bits.
 
 

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