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Article #15Re: The mythical 1GB card - ram or disk? disk....
From: Michael O'Dell
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 19:05
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 19:05
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sorry - the rumors are that the device is a "disk", not a "ram." by that i mean that it is block-organized in reasonable sized lumps, read-write, and non-volitile. however, if the block size was small enough (say 128 to 512 bytes), the "seek time" small enough, and the transfer speeds high enough, you might be able to play games with large caches with very wide lines (finally - a real role for secondary caches). all this is hearsay, however. we will have to wait and see. and maybe we will never know..... -Mike Bellcore??? Bellcore isn't allowed opinions. Any here are mine.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!walter!gizmo!mo From: mo@gizmo.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) Newsgroups: comp.arch.storage Subject: Re: The mythical 1GB card - ram or disk? disk.... Message-ID: <1992Aug3.190510.17646@walter.bellcore.com> Date: 3 Aug 92 19:05:10 GMT References: <MCGLK.92Aug2121551@bike.rad.washington.edu> <JASON.92Aug2231616@Tfs.COM> <BsEvqx.JrJ@acsu.buffalo.edu> Sender: news@walter.bellcore.com Reply-To: mo@bellcore.com Distribution: usa Organization: Center for Chaotic Repeatabilty Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: gizmo