From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Mon Dec 07 1998 - 10:25:22 MST
Ken Meyering [ken@define.com] wrote:
>All the disc array hardware could stay the same, for now, except the
>hard drives themselves would just be superscalar ram wavers, instead
>of platters! Gee, what a concept! Time to bring back Melinda and
>have her pull out the check book.
*Shrug* What's so revolutionary about that? I had an Anamartic 128MB SCSI
RAM wafer-drive six or seven years ago. Windows 3.x ran real fast when you
had all the executables and swap file on a SCSI drive with microsecond
access time.
Shame about the $20,000+ price-tag... apparently they mostly sold them as
swap disks for VAXes and the like, because at the time that was a small
fraction of the cost of buying a 128MB RAM upgrade for those machines.
Mark
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