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Article #20280Re: Cryo-refrigerators
From: Eugene Brooks
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 03:58
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 03:58
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In article <11020@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> muir@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (David Muir Sharnoff) writes: >Correct me if I'm wrong, but does this mean that you could store ~100GB >in a 3000 mile fiber loop? > >Is an optical loop a viable storage medium? Some benifits: n access points, >< 1 second access to ALL the data.... Problems: reliability. In very early vacuum tube based computers this type of storage used coaxial cable and was called a "delay line." Of course, modern memory storage devices have made this technique a bit obsolete. Now you might ask, just what is a vacuum tube? :-) Is the news software incompatible with your mailer too? brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp, uunet!maddog.llnl.gov!brooks
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!vette!brooks From: brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Cryo-refrigerators Keywords: breakthroughs refrigerators Message-ID: <21874@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 14 Mar 89 03:58:57 GMT References: <4387@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <13288@steinmetz.ge.com> <4409@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <11020@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Reply-To: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov.UUCP (Eugene Brooks) Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lines: 15