Pondering 2038 vis-a-vis 64-bit file offsets

Posted Aug 18, 2013 1:22 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Pondering 2038 vis-a-vis 64-bit file offsets by vomlehn
Parent article: Pondering 2038

Well, 128-bit systems might become necessary if we ever decide to make systems with direct data addressing. Creating a storage with 2^63 bytes of data is slowly becoming possible...