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From: kleonard@PRC.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: quest for breakthroughs (long)
Keywords: architecture, breakthrough, technology
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Date: 15 Feb 89 03:11:47 GMT
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Organization: Unisys Great Valley Laboratory
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* architecture department. Your job is to tell us (the enlightened 
* scientists at the research lab) exactly what sort of technological 
* breakthrough would help you the most. 
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* Breakthrough examples: 
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* - Fiberoptic advances creating 1 Gigabyte/sec cable or bus bandwidths 
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Is it OK that we're already building one? 1Gb/s per host pair in 
local or campus net, all host pairs concurrent at that rate. And 1Gb/s 
per fiber on a trunk as long as you care to pay for. (Note, that is 
1,000,000,000 bits of the user's data we're talking about.) 
 
Regardz, 
Ken Leonard 
Duke of West Nantmeal; Hereditary Captain-in-Chief and Master of Gunnery, 
His Lordship's Loyal Company of Freebooters Cannoners and Military Enginers. 
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