Drive sizes (WAS Re: MIT provides MULTICS source and documentation)

[Scott Quinn]

On Nov 15, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Roy wrote:

> I mentioned it in here because it came up in conversation with 
> somebody in the
> list a while back and they said something about the 1-2G range of 
> sizes being
> particularly useful for some things,  though I can't recall at the 
> moment
> just what those things were offhand.
>
IRIX 4D1-3.3 seems to not like drives much over 1GB, many VAXstations 
don't like drives over 1.05GB for VMS, SCSI Apollo/DOMAIN systems don't 
like drives much over 2GB. I know there's more but can't recall right 
now.

There should probably be a "disk size limits FAQ" somewhere to hold all 
of this