24 Nov
2003
24 Nov
'03
6:20 a.m.
2883 and the slave was 2884 was what we ran on the system we had
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----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Gemeny <MGemeny(a)pgcps.org>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 7:38 PM
Subject: Grandfather system RTE6/VM?
want
I wrote:
the
The largest real Access system I ever owned/ran
had 1 7920 and 3 7900s.
What
> is that, about 47MB. So two 2883s at about 25 MB each would just over largest real
system I ever ran.
Frank McConnell wrote:
Hmm? A 7920 is 50MB, unless maybe TSB had trouble
with that many bits on
one device.
Yep, as I recall it was the limit of the ADT (Available Disk Table). I to say that the ADT was swapped in and out of core on
a per-drive-basis as
needed. But the core allocated was only big enough to hold 32MEG worth of
available disk bits (per drive).
So, 3*5=15, 15+32=47
I?m just going on memory on all of this, and that?s been 20 years ago now.
Feel free to chime in here if my memory is not serving well enough.
Mike Gemeny.