Re: Re: big memories, who needs >~1G

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From: eugene
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1987 21:56

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In article <50400001@hplabsc.UUCP> marvit@hplabsc.UUCP (Peter Marvit) writes:

>The suprising answer?  Not more horsepower nor better floating point/vector
>operations, nor lower power consumption.  Bigger memory topped the list 
>(with faster being far behind).  Would anyone who works with these monsters
>(Eugene?) care to comment?

>Peter Marvit
>HP Labs

Okay.
Some computing applications grow to fill the available space.

Anyone lacking the foresight to see some of this (the 1980s versions of
the 1946 30-computers mentality), forget them..... They are not worth
our time.

From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:

--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
  eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA
  "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?"
  "Send mail, avoid follow-ups.  If enough, I'll summarize."
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  {hplabs,hao,ihnp4,decwrl,allegra,tektronix,menlo70}!ames!aurora!eugene

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Subject: Re: Re: big memories, who needs >~1G
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