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Re: Is there a file limit size of 2GB in JDK 1.5

From	Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Is there a file limit size of 2GB in JDK 1.5
Date	2011-11-08 19:11 -0800
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On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:03:51 -0500, Eric Sosman
<esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:

[snip]

>The same article has other rather startling estimates of present-day
>data capacities and rates.  Some appear to contradict each other, by
>as much as 1-1.5 decimal orders of magnitude, but the overall burden
>is clear: "64 bits" is not a synonym for "forever."

     Fortunately, we have zetta- and yotta-.  There have been
suggestions for other prefixes beyond these, but I understand that
none of them have been officially adopted as SI.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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    Re: Is there  a file limit size of 2GB in JDK 1.5 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-08 06:54 -0800
      Re: Is there  a file limit size of 2GB in JDK 1.5 Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-08 21:03 -0500
        Re: Is there  a file limit size of 2GB in JDK 1.5 Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-11-08 19:11 -0800

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