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From: ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Extremely Fast Filesystems
Message-ID: <1179.26bffdbf@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 7 Aug 90 23:55:43 GMT
References: <5539@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <13285@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <30728@super.ORG> <13526@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <10606@celit.fps.com>
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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In <10606@celit.fps.com>, dave@fps.com (Dave Smith) says "I thought the
Bullet file server was neat, but...I showed the paper to one of our
customers.  He read through it and laughed.  He said that he wanted
to have files bigger than his main memory, that was the whole point
of disks."

Are you sure your customer isn't confusing the size of main *physical*
memory with the size of *virtual* memory?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro                       fone: +64-71-562-889
Computer Services Dept                     fax: +64-71-384-066
University of Waikato            electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
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