RE: A89: Me distributing roms.

To: "'assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org'" <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: RE: A89: Me distributing roms.
From: Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 08:46:20 +0100
Reply-To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org


> I subscribe to MaximumPC magazine (formerly boot).  IBM made 
> this RAMDisk as
> an experimental device, although it couldn't even touch on 
> the performance
> Magnus is talking about.  The RAMDisk only used a lowly dual 
> SCSI-2 external
> connection.

The problem in this case is that SCSI-2 is *way* too slow. A RAMdisk could
be connected directly to the system bus. Then get a system with multiple
memory busses / CPU, and with multiple CPUs, and you are at least closing in
on it.

But not in reality :-) You'd of course use a load-sharing cluster with say
800Mbit each or so (can easily be done with normal mainstream x86 servers)

//mha

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