[Info-vax] Greater than approx 16GB disk leads to UNXSIGNAL crash

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-06-01, abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I find these discussions interesting.  Why would anyone expect software written 20 or more years ago to support (without change) hardware that wasn't even a concept at the time?   Saying that this may result in similar issues to the "writeboot" issues of the past seems a bit much too.  Take a snapshot of the state of the software today and come back in 30 years with new hardware and see what happens. I would expect to see similar "problems".

You should read what I wrote more carefully Dan.

My WRITEBOOT comment had nothing to do with old hardware but with
future systems.

Simon.

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