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Article #20263Re: Cryo-refrigerators
From: David Muir Sharnoff
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1989 10:15
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1989 10:15
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In article <4409@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) writes: >expected - like optic fiber. (The single-mode optic fibers that are in >the ground right now, have an intrinsic bandwidth of 35,000 gigahertz, >in the IR window alone. This time, it isn't a typo.) 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. -Dave David Muir Sharnoff. Postgres Research Project, UC Berkeley. muir@postgres.berkeley.edu (415) 524-2931
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!postgres!muir From: muir@postgres.uucp (David Muir Sharnoff) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Cryo-refrigerators Keywords: breakthroughs refrigerators Message-ID: <11020@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 13 Mar 89 10:15:14 GMT References: <4387@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <13288@steinmetz.ge.com> <4409@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: muir@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (David Muir Sharnoff) Organization: Postgres Research Group, UC Berkeley Lines: 14