Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!amdcad!phil From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Disk Striping (really RAM vs disk) Message-ID: <18018@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 14:40:29 EDT Article-I.D.: amdcad.18018 Posted: Sun Aug 23 14:40:29 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 23:48:21 EDT References: <414@astroatc.UUCP> Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices Lines: 15 In article <414@astroatc.UUCP> johnw@astroatc.UUCP (John F. Wardale) writes: >Figure a 3year design cycle and 5 year life. Said unit will have >to compete with DRAM memorys of 5 to 8 years from now! >How much would said disk be worth in an age where 16M-bit >chips are old-hat and people have 64M-bit chips working Come on John, don't be stupid. Just because a bathtub and a toilet both hold water doesn't mean you use them for the same things. You must have temporarily forgotten the difference between volatile and nonvolatile storage. -- I speak for myself, not the company. Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com