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In article <ukDNzgRDA4sQ091yn@bigblue.no>, B. Vermo <bv@bigblue.no> wrote:
>In article <5gpddf$4ns@client2.news.psi.net>,
>os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) wrote:
>|Or they suffer just as we do....besides, those corporations mostly turn
>|off their desktop PCs when the 8 hours end.
>
>Turn off PCs? That would mean inviting premature hardware problems.
>I never turn off any PC unless it has to be upgraded. Neither do any
>companies I have worked with. With OS/2, all it does when unattended is
>to blank the screen and issue a halt instruction. Runs cool, does not
>wear out the screen, and does not fatigue electronics by needless
>power on surges and temperature cycling.
>|
>|Hmmm, take that large database file of 4GB for exmple <G>.....
>
>That is hardly a large database file. I do not remember the limits
>offhand, but both ISAM files and DB2 tables can be rather larger than
>what you can realistically expect to install hardware for on a PC.
>For DB2, I think the table size can be 512GB spread out over several
>physical drives. The maximum database size is several terabytes.
>An ordinary sequential access file is limited to 64GB, while simple
>direct access is limited to 2GB.

Yet the API limit is 2GB.....It was a recent problem a user could not
get around.

>
>

Best Regards,

Mustafa Soysal

Btw: I am no longer on the os2-l list, it turned out to be an IBM
     Marketing hype list and my anchoring them to the truth was so
     bothersome to them, that they removed me from the list.

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