[rescue] Vaxen?

[George Adkins]

On Saturday 27 April 2002 09:59 pm, you wrote:
> On April 27, George Adkins wrote:
> > >   It wouldn't actually be all that difficult to do.  There would be a
> > > performance issue...core is slow (~1uS), and since reads are
> > > destructive, every read is a read followed by a write.
> >
> > Yeah, that's pretty slow compared to 3.5 for a 15,000 rpm scsi disk...
> >
> > I think that it's performance would still stomp the poo out of any
> > conventional rotating disk subsystem.
>
>   I think the key there is to make it *wide*.
>
Okay, so it's wide scsi, and the storage system spreads out the data 1 bit at 
a time over multiple core blocks, so that each word of data is accessed in 
parallel, 1 bit from each subsystem, each access retrieving 1 word of data.

and we'll build it out of that 3 dimensional core stuff...

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George