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From: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Dream Machine (Re: HP Announces New Calculator!)
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Date: 6 Apr 91 08:48:24 GMT
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In a posting of [6 Apr 91 03:55:50 GMT]
   cloos@acsu.buffalo.edu (James H. Cloos) writes:

 > RAM" "cards" (remember, they would be completely non-volatile, and
 > D) would be the software-exchange medium.  I'm thinking a pair of
 > processors, one maintaining a filesystem in its filled up memory, the
 > other running communications.  This would mean 2^256 words of memory,
 > or enough to hold just about everything anyone wants on just a single
 > card."

   Of course, the "cards" physically will look like little cubes,
approximately an inch on the side. The handheld won't need any ports,
because the cubes won't need to plug in - it will be enough for them
to be in the viscinity of a handheld. The handheld will automatically
establish a 2MB/s microwave channel to the cube, or any other handheld
in the viscinity, for that matter. Thus they will be able to draw upon
the computronic powers of nearby handhelds, in case the user needs to
do something really demanding and important, such as playing the
latest bloated version of Tetris, which will barely fit in a standard
configuration. :-)

						-- Jan Brittenson
						   bson@ai.mit.edu