[geeks] industrial USB flash drives, and other solid state Solaris storage

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sat Apr 19 23:54:27 CDT 2008


On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:42:21PM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Also on the horizon, at least I hope so very much, is magnetic memory which 
> thus far looks like it will have a good fraction of RAM speeds, but the 
> non-volatile nature of flash and SSD drives.  Of course, this seems to be 
> having a hard time getting from the lab to the street so far.

No way - it's been in use for almost sixty years!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_memory

8-)

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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