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From: eugene@pioneer.UUCP
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Subject: Re: big memories, who needs >~1G
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Date: Tue, 24-Mar-87 17:01:38 EST
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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.
>They had a big viewgraph with LOTS of 0's.
>
>Dan Nachbar
>bellcore!daniel

I think the project was for a 1 GB machine, a friend is on the review
panel.  This is not impressive when you consider there are 8 or so
Cray-2s with 256 Macho Words (about 2,000 macho bytes) delivered.
They (MMM) basically wanted a souped up VAX as one previous poster noted.

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