Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!super!rminnich From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Extremely Fast Filesystems Message-ID: <31000@super.ORG> Date: 8 Aug 90 19:02:16 GMT References: <13667@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Aug7.190719.7907@caen.engin.umich.edu> <1990Aug7.205747.14206@caen.engin.umich.edu> Sender: news@super.ORG Reply-To: rminnich@super.UUCP (Ronald G Minnich) Organization: Supercomputing Research Center, Bowie, Md. Lines: 14 In article <1990Aug7.205747.14206@caen.engin.umich.edu> pha@caen.engin.umich.edu (Paul H. Anderson) writes: >We don't have a real problem optimizing use of the hardware we >have now, it is just that the available hardware has too little >RAM, or has filesystems that are too slow. And once it gets enough ram we will run out of address bits again! this ds 5000 on my desk as 128 mb of memory, and can have 512 mb. That is getting uncomfortably close to running out of address bits. I figure we will be there in two years, at a bit a year. I guess there was a 32-bit war here before, judging by earlier comments, but fact is we are about to run out. ron -- 1987: We set standards, not Them. Your standard windowing system is NeUWS. 1989: We set standards, not Them. You can have X, but the UI is OpenLock. 1990: Why are you buying all those workstations from Them running Motif?