Re: 21 terabytes at NYNEX

From: Mark Rosenbaum <mjr_at_netcom.com>
Date: 1996/05/05
Message-ID: <mjrDqy5E8.3t5_at_netcom.com>#1/1


In article <1996Apr30.171802.15434_at_rossinc.com>, Joel Garry <joelga_at_rossinc.com> wrote:
>In article <mjrDqHH2K.IEA_at_netcom.com> mjr_at_netcom.com (Mark Rosenbaum) writes:
>>
>>21 TB would not fit on most 32 bit UNIX servers. There is a 2 GB limit
>>on file sizes and typically about a 1 K limit on the number of files
>
>Perhaps it is a 64 bit server. Maybe a 12 350MHz processor Alpha 8400 with
>14G of directly addressable memory. And a huge tape robot in one of the
>144 PCI slots.

I am not an 8400 expert but I believe that while the 8400 can be configured with 12 procs or 14 GB of mem or 144 PCI slots I don't think it can be configed with all of this. Typically with SMP machines you are limited by the number of slots in the mid-plane.

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