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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Memory hierarchy
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Date: 1 Apr 91 19:11:53 GMT
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In article <00670398761@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM> elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green) writes:
> Revolutions, alas, happen only once every 200 years or so. The last major
> revision was when the disk heirarchy contracted from disk/drum to just
> plain disk.

How about magnetic disk-optical disk, as in things like the Epoch Infinite
Storage server? A new level... between tape and disk, not between disk and
RAM.
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