ADSM-L

Re: 2-gig limitation removed for HP, SGI?

1997-01-07 20:18:33
Subject: Re: 2-gig limitation removed for HP, SGI?
From: Dianne Sharp <DSHARP AT CLEAR.CO DOT NZ>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:18:33 +1300
thanks for the feedback

Dianne Sharp
Operations Analyst
ISS CUSTOMER SUPPORT
Ext 4208

>----------
>From:  Mj Lopatin[SMTP:lopatin AT VNET.IBM DOT COM]
>Sent:  Wednesday, 08 January, 1997 12:07PM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>Subject:       2-gig limitation removed for HP, SGI?
>
>> What about the HP and SGI IRIX clients, is the 2 Gb limit removed
>  for them?
>
>The HP 10 client is only supported on the 10.01 operating system at
>this time.  That operating system does not support files greater than
>2 Gb, so our client also does not support files greater than 2 Gb.
>We hope to support the HP 10.10 and 10.20 operating systems in the future,
>and at that time, that client would support greater than 2 Gb files.
>
>As far as the SGI client goes, our one SGI client runs on both the 5.2 and
>5.3 operating systems. Only 5.3 supports greater than 2 Gb files; 5.2 does
>not.
>To be able to compile our client for both, we could not add 2 Gb support to
>the SGI client at this time.   We hope to support the 5.3 operating system
>with its own separate SGI client in the future, and that client would
>support files > 2 Gb.  The SGI client is one of the reasons we announced
>that we support > 2 Gb files on MOST platforms that support them, not ALL.
>
>MJ Lopatin
>ADSM Client Development
>
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