Re: DIPLOMACY: Memetic Morphing

mark@unicorn.com
Mon, 7 Dec 1998 09:25:22 -0800 (PST)

my inner geek [geek@ifeden.com] wrote:
>All the disc array hardware could stay the same, for now, except the
>hard drives themselves would just be superscalar ram wavers, instead
>of platters! Gee, what a concept! Time to bring back Melinda and
>have her pull out the check book.

*Shrug* What's so revolutionary about that? I had an Anamartic 128MB SCSI RAM wafer-drive six or seven years ago. Windows 3.x ran real fast when you had all the executables and swap file on a SCSI drive with microsecond access time.

Shame about the $20,000+ price-tag... apparently they mostly sold them as swap disks for VAXes and the like, because at the time that was a small fraction of the cost of buying a 128MB RAM upgrade for those machines.

Mark