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From: d757@sphinx.UChicago.edu (Lawrence Lerner)
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Subject: Optical disk questions
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 13:04:54 EDT
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[ Hey, Fred, perhaps you can say something about optical disks...  -DL ]

  You want an opinion?  Ok, how is the current research going to incorporate
the advances in hardware.  Specifically optical disks?  I attended a seminar
sometime ago on the use of optical disks.  Apparently it is possible 
to store many a megabyte on very little space, ok no biggie it's been
available for a while (yes it's not eraseable, well that's hardware) but
I was under the impression that the retrieval time is something slightly
less than phenomonal.  Are OS being designed to take advantage of this
vastly expanded memory and data call up time?  

   As an undergrad with a few CS courses under my belt what are some good
books or reports to read for new developments in OS????

[ Almost never books.  If you want something new, really new, then the ]
[ place to look is in conference proceedings.  It takes at least one   ]
[ year for anything to make it into journals.                          ]

"Never ask me to ask a question"
         -He who asks uncomforatble questions.-- 
           "...nothing kills that does not know ye."
                        "The Elf Glade"         

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      Lawrence Lerner    University of Chicago Computation Center