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Date:      Wed, 26 Aug 1998 20:43:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To:        miky@pcnet.pcnet.ro
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what relation is between the microproc,highway & disk size
Message-ID:  <199808270343.UAA18902@tao.thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <691@miky.pcnet.ro> from "Mike T." at "Aug 26, 98 12:26:25 pm"

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According to Mike T.:
> Hy folkes, hy Gary !
> 
>  Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: 
>  
>  >  My newer 6x86 that was damaged late last June has been restored to
>  > a P200 with 64MB and still has its 10GB of disk.
> 
> 
>  Pls.excuse me if I'm intruding,I have a question,it may be a little
> off-topic,but since I read the 2 lines above I have no peace finding
> out this :
> 
> - What relation is between the microprocessor,the number of bits of
> the computer (or microprocessors) highways and the maximum disk size
> that the microprocessor can access ( see ) ?
> 
> - I'm asking this because I read somewhere that a certain micro.,not 
> remember now what it was,could not access ( see ) more than 4GB.
> 
> - So I suppouse that I can't access with a 286 ,say a 10GB disk.
> 
> - Happily,I own a Intel-Pentium-133MHz.Would he "see" a 10GB disk if
> I'll buy one ? 
> 
>             please enlight me.
>                                miky@pcnet.pcnet.ro
> 

	Hi Mike,

	I'll let somebody more hardware-savvy answer this one!

	People??

	gary



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   Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service uNix


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