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Indeed, I remember when I got my hands on the first 1GB IBM SCSI disk, which seemed unbelievably large, given ones just 3 years older at 300MB were in boxes the size of midi-tower PCs. Files, reaching sizes of 2GiB, seemed to be just in perpetuity broken.. we knew the UNIX FS imposed limits. In fact who wants to open a 2GiB text logfile with vi(1)? Even today with current RAM sizes, back then 32MiB was very large and text files were "small" and loaded into memory. BSD introduced nvi(1) which handled large files better.