From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 26 20:44:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA24530 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 20:44:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA24525 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 20:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13914; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 20:43:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id UAA18902; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 20:43:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199808270343.UAA18902@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: what relation is between the microproc,highway & disk size In-Reply-To: <691@miky.pcnet.ro> from "Mike T." at "Aug 26, 98 12:26:25 pm" To: miky@pcnet.pcnet.ro Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 20:43:15 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Mike T.: > Hy folkes, hy Gary ! > > Gary Kline 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 -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message