Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!uwvax!uwmacc!hobbes!root From: root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: 64 Vs 32 Message-ID: <109@hobbes.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Apr-87 14:47:14 EST Article-I.D.: hobbes.109 Posted: Sat Apr 18 14:47:14 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 17:56:01 EST References: <3810013@nucsrl.UUCP> <28200016@ccvaxa> Reply-To: root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) Followup-To: comp.arch Distribution: world Organization: U of Wisconsin - Madison Spanish Department Lines: 24 +---- Robin Lake writes the following in article <449@nitrex.UUCP> ---- | >best, that would be 5 Tbytes in the space of a large disk drive. Yum. ;-) | | Integrated Automation in Alameda, CA has a 100-disk/200 Gb optical disk juke +---- ( Paraphrased from an article in the Capital Times, March 1987) At the Physical Sciences Lab at the Univ of Wisconsin there is a system which is called the Optical Archival System. Billed as the largest computer 'memory' in the world, the system uses more than 1,000 optical disks and a robot disk handler to give 2 Tera Bytes of storage. (For comparison shopping, note that this is equivalent to 40,000,000 9-Track tapes, 4,000,000,000 Floppy Disks, a stack of paper 3 times the height of Mt. Everest, or 6 (six) copies of the 1980 U.S. Census. Your milage may vary. Customer liable for all state and local sales tax.) Access time is less than 1 minute maximum for any platter. The system should be able to be expanded by as much as eight times, if they can find out what to do with all that data... -- John Plocher UUCP: !uwvax!uwmacc!hobbes!plocher ============== Internet: plocher%hobbes.UUCP@uwvax.WISC.EDU FidoNet: 121/0 BITNET: uwvax!uwmacc!hobbes!plocher@at th a