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From: chuck@amdahl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Disk Striping (description and references) plus class brief
Message-ID: <12191@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 04:27:18 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 15 04:27:18 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 09:07:32 EDT
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Reply-To: chuck@amdahl.amdahl.com (Charles Simmons)
Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA
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Keywords: photonics
Summary: digital optics anyone?

>>	So, why not put the disk in a vacuum?
>
>heads "fly" above the disk surface,

Well, with all this discussion about mach 1 being the limiting factor
for conventional disk drives, one has to ask, "But what about optical
disk drives?"  Surely an optical disk drive could be designed where
the mirror scans across sectors and tracks at faster than mach 1?

>Support sustained spaceflight: fight |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>the soi-disant "Planetary Society"!  | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry

Yeah, what he says.  Let's develop    |  Chuck Simmons @ Amdahl
the moon before we terraform Mars.    |  amdahl!chuck