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From: meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64 Vs 32
Message-ID: <1528@dg_rtp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 19:05:01 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 30 19:05:01 1987
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In article <731@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
> The (to me) unrealistic part of your retort was in assuming that the disk farm
> has long to live.  My impression is that it is being rapidly overtaken by new
> technology, and will soon be superseded by something with a much lower
> cost-to-maintain.  The online, staged, tertiary storage concept has been proved
> by several hardware releases with corresponding operating system functionality;
> IBM's cartridge tape system comes to mind at once, and BBN's terabyte memory
> was another attempt in this direction.  Then again, we may see fast access
> digital video disk someday soon.

I think analogues of the disk farm will always be with us.  Yes at any
given time you will have available on a "small" system as much storage
as you previously had on a large system.  That will only encourage the
large systems to add even more data to the disk farm.  There never seems
to be enough { memory, cpu cycles, etc. }
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	Michael Meissner, Data General	Uucp: ...mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!meissner

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