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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: IDE feature request
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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:43:38 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <at28st$ifd$1@forge.intermeta.de> from "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" at Dec 09, 2002 02:21:17 PM
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> > > Fix ide.c to generate a b c d e f and you should be able to get 16.
> > Like this?
> Hmm,
> 
> you will get the same problem again, once someone is able to cram more than
> 16 IDE hosts into a box. Why not go for ide%d (ide0-9, ide10-99)?

The code that was posted did 0-9 then a-z, which is good for 36.  That
*should* be enough for most applications for a few years.

John.
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