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Re: Short name longer than 8 characters?

At 11:38 AM -0700 7/2/02, Jose L. Hales-Garcia wrote:
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 11:29 AM, Philip van Allen wrote:

I believe I read somewhere that Mac OS X 10.2 (aka Jaguar) will support user names longer than 8 characters.

This was confirmed in an Apple seminar at UCLA. The reason being that large
school districts need a much larger name space for students.

Hehe, well, "need" is a strong term...they request the feature. Gigantic universities have been running with the 8-char limitation for, oh, ever.

You would have to be an obscenely large to actually outgrow 8 characters...but the legibility is another matter ;-). Just allowing for the 26 letters, the 10 numbers, and 3 characters (period, hyphen, underscore...I'm not sure what else are valid w/o looking), you're talking about 39 to the 8th power...somewhere around 5 trillion :-)

So, it looks like the entire global population can easily fit into a single domain restricted to an 8-character namespace.

Totally useless, but fact nonetheless ;-)

Mike
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