Re: 64-bit

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Vernon,

You wrote:
>Yeah, I read ILE Concepts after I sent this. But aren't we still limited
>to 1 TB? Leif was discussing 1,000 TBs.

True, but 1TB is a bloody big lump of storage!  What would you be doing
that needed more than that?  (As main storage rather than DASD.)

Teraspace exists to provide a Unix-like view of process storage and thus
assists with porting that crap to the AS/400 without having to make a
"native" application in the process.  Shell scripts, STDIO, parameter
switches, useless error messages -- wonderful stuff ... NOT!  Strange how
two 30 year-old systems can be so different -- and the crappy one is the
popular one!

Teraspace is also the mechanism used to provide memory-mapped files in 510
but I haven't done anything with that yet.

This whole 64-bit discussion is a bit silly.  The hardware is 64-bit
therefore the machine is 64-bit.  The fact that an application program is
restricted to a subset of that address space is a moot point.  You couldn't
do anything useful with it if you did have access to it all.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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