Misha Wolf <Misha dot Wolf at reuters dot com> wrote: > <quote> > My point was that 600,000 bytes isn't all that much in comparison to > the things we store and pass around nowadays. That's less than half a > floppy disk, and everyone knows we don't use floppies any more because > they're considered too small to hold anything useful. > </quote> > > Do you have in mind an 8 inch or a 5.25 inch floppy disk? I have in mind either a 5.25-inch or a 3.5-inch high-density diskette, either of which can hold at least 1.2 MB. I haven't seen a computer built in the last 25 years that used an 8-inch diskette. We had some in the college bookstore warehouse where I worked in the '80s; we considered them museum pieces even then. The 5.25-inch HD diskette has been available since 1984, and the 3.5-inch HD since 1987. Very few PCs sold since the mid-'90s support only the low-density (720K) diskettes, which would still be large enough to hold a 600K registry. 5.25-inch drives are getting quite hard to find by now. I shouldn't have brought this up. The registry won't be anywhere near this big unless and until the draft makes a concrete provision to support ISO 639-3 codes. Right now it defines a placeholder for them, but does not specify anything else about them (e.g. when are they used as primary language subtags and when as extlang subtags). -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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