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Article #13256Re: big memories, who needs >~1G
From: jjbaker
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1987 21:49
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1987 21:49
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In article <506@thumper.UUCP>, daniel@thumper.UUCP writes:
> There is a project at Princeton called the Massive Memory Machine. Their goal
> is to build a machine in the near future that has something like a terabyte
> of core. I may be off by a couple of orders of magnitude, but you get the idea.
There is such a machine here, a VAX 11/750 with 128 M of real memory.
I don't know about future expansions. The machine's name is Thrash,
because it doesn't ;-)
I have a friend who's writing a compiler on it, who routinely uses
50-60M. He reports about 2-3 page faults per session. Why he gets any
is hard to figure.
Thanbo
(...!princeton!phoenix!jjbaker)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!princeton!phoenix!jjbaker From: jjbaker@phoenix.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: big memories, who needs >~1G Message-ID: <148@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU> Date: Sat, 21-Mar-87 16:49:46 EST Article-I.D.: phoenix.148 Posted: Sat Mar 21 16:49:46 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Mar-87 17:58:40 EST References: <506@thumper.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Princeton Univ. Computing and Information Technology Lines: 15 Summary: Thrash exists, but smaller than you say