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From: lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64-bit addresses
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Date: 12 Feb 90 02:30:30 GMT
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In article <11112@encore.Encore.COM> jkenton@pinocchio.UUCP (Jeff Kenton) writes:
>As long as we're inventing the future here, let's pose an extra question:
>
>	When compute speed and disk and network speed have increased 1000
>	times, and memory and disk capacity have done the same (5 years ?),
>	how will it change what we do (and how we do it) with computers.
>	And what new peripherals will we need to interact with?
>
>Post your thoughts.

OK, here's a thought.   Compute speed I see going up.  Network speed I see
going up (assuming we dump the current implementation of ethernet).  Disk
speed is another question.  Yeah, yeah, I know I'm going to get flamed by
the disk farm people.  You know, disk farms are cool, they make dd(1)'s go
really fast.  They don't do sh*t for the read of that first byte, in fact
they probably make it worse since there's an extra layer of software.  I
don't see disks getting significantly faster any time soon.

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Larry McVoy, Sun Microsystems     (415) 336-7627       ...!sun!lm or lm@sun.com