Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!geaclib!daveb
From: daveb@geaclib.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Solid State Secondary Storage
Message-ID: <3561@geaclib.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 89 14:29:43 GMT
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From article <248@vlsi.ll.mit.edu>, by young@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (George Young):
> What if we could put a little matching circuit on each wafer to support
> context addressable usage?  What other sort of additional (small) circuits
> would be useful in such a beast?

Bob Pendleton in  <1178@esunix.UUCP>:
 Take a look at Lee Hollars' work on large textual database search.
 Build these ram disks with a few pattern matchers per wafer, stack up
 50 to 100 gigabytes worth, and you could have a killer text search
 machine.

 Or:
    collect various suggested add-ons
    find the points of commonality
    design "hooks" so that one can add simple logic on an adjacent
`chip (say, gate-arrays) at the expense of making that logic
critically (the usual term is "fatally") intertwined with the memory...
    You then have a kit for anyone who wants to design a fast-search
machine.  You might want to release one or two examples of useful
configurations: I'd really like a search chip, but i suspect that
about the time Little-Tiny-Chip-Foundry Inc. comes out with one my cpu
will search almost as fast...

--dave (with apologies to Henry Spencer) c-b
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