kh (09/13/82)
10 billion gigabits is the title of a chapter in "Beyond the Blue Event Horizon", the sequel to Gateway, by Frederik Pohl. This is the size of the computer's memory. My idle curiosity leads me to ask: If you kept every version of every file that ever existed on your system, how long would it take to fill up that much memory? All you people who do daily incremental backups should be able to estimate it. Kenny Hirsch unc!kh