Date   : Tue, 29 Jan 1991 13:23:04 GMT
From   : usc!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!gauss.math.purdue.edu!wilker@apple.com (Clarence Wilkerson)
Subject: 8 meg limit

But the size of a disk block can be large, i.e. 1k, 4k even 16k.
Even 1k x 65535 = 64 megs.
  Of course it's hard to imagine doing a DIR to a disk with
64k 1k files.......
Clarence