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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What is a Mainframe?
Message-ID: <1142@vsi.COM>
Date: 1 Jul 89 09:11:27 GMT
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In article <27814@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes:
> An impressive example of this is the self healing disk system for the
> Connection Machine.  Its throughput is 32 megabytes per second, and
> it is composed of an array of disk drives such that each drive handles
> one bit of a 64 bit word.  72 drives are used in a standard error correcting
> scheme and if one disk fails completely the think stays up.  You replace
> the disk and its data gets reconstructed from the error correction code.

I think Micropolis came out with one of these as well.  They used
nine drives with spindle synchronization logic.

     Steve

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