Re: those bits can have 2 values for a reason

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From: Peter da Silva
Subject: Re: those bits can have 2 values for a reason
Date: 11:50 on 08 Feb 2007
> I just discovered last week that Adobe Reader arbitrarily limits you 
> to 20 open files.

That limit is probably due to the fact that in 1976 on the PDP-11 there 
was a limit of 20 open files because when you only had 64K of address 
space that was how big an open file table you could get away with, and 
someone at Adobe has been cargo-culting the same code for handling 
files for 30 years.

>  Can we please still call *them* morons?

Oh, you had a question? Yes, yes you can.
There's stuff above here

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