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From: lerici@super.ORG (Peter W. Brewer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: I/O
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Date: 13 Jun 90 23:20:02 GMT
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In article <6662@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>In article <39284@mips.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
>
>>1) I/O will always be a problem, for all of the usual design reasons,
>
>	"When you can give me disks which rotate significantly
>	faster than 3600 RPM, then we can start talking."
>				--Don Senzig
>
Time for wide, short, dense, and durable tapes.. tape media holds more than 
optical disks, and winchesters and can be made faster and virtually random...

I think Seymour spoke about the future of tapes once upon a time.. CDs.. nope
the holes can only be so small, better tape technology beats 'em. Where is
Nakimichi when you need them ;-)

	Peter


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