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From: jjbaker@phoenix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: big memories, who needs >~1G
Message-ID: <148@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU>
Date: Sat, 21-Mar-87 16:49:46 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 21 16:49:46 1987
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Summary: Thrash exists, but smaller than you say

In article <506@thumper.UUCP>, daniel@thumper.UUCP writes:
> There is a project at Princeton called the Massive Memory Machine.  Their goal
> is to build a machine in the near future that has something like a terabyte
> of core. I may be off by a couple of orders of magnitude, but you get the idea.

There is such a machine here, a VAX 11/750 with 128 M of real memory.
I don't know about future expansions.  The machine's name is Thrash,
because it doesn't ;-)  

I have a friend who's writing a compiler on it, who routinely uses
50-60M.  He reports about 2-3 page faults per session.  Why he gets any
is hard to figure.

                             Thanbo
                             (...!princeton!phoenix!jjbaker)