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Article #13281Re: big memories, who needs >~1G
From: eugene
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1987 22:01
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1987 22:01
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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.
>They had a big viewgraph with LOTS of 0's.
>
>Dan Nachbar
>bellcore!daniel
I think the project was for a 1 GB machine, a friend is on the review
panel. This is not impressive when you consider there are 8 or so
Cray-2s with 256 Macho Words (about 2,000 macho bytes) delivered.
They (MMM) basically wanted a souped up VAX as one previous poster noted.
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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!lll-lcc!ames!pioneer!eugene From: eugene@pioneer.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: big memories, who needs >~1G Message-ID: <952@ames.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Mar-87 17:01:38 EST Article-I.D.: ames.952 Posted: Tue Mar 24 17:01:38 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 04:48:37 EST References: <506@thumper.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ames.UUCP Reply-To: eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) Distribution: na Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Lines: 23