Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964978AbVKVQYs (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:24:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751315AbVKVQYs (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:24:48 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn2.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.38]:49186 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751314AbVKVQYr (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:24:47 -0500 Message-ID: <438346E5.3010408@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:27:17 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tarkan Erimer CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: what is our answer to ZFS? References: <11b141710511210144h666d2edfi@mail.gmail.com> <20051121124544.9e502404.diegocg@gmail.com> <9611fa230511210619l208b10a8w77aedaa249345448@mail.gmail.com> <200511211252.04217.rob@landley.net> <20051122092047.GD16295@merlin.emma.line.org> <9611fa230511220200s36f8753fj4ebc4810db935301@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9611fa230511220200s36f8753fj4ebc4810db935301@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1412 Lines: 32 Tarkan Erimer wrote: > On 11/22/05, Matthias Andree wrote: > >>What if some breakthrough in storage gives us vastly larger (larger than >>predicted harddisk storage density increases) storage densities in 10 >>years for the same price of a 200 or 300 GB disk drive now? > > > If all the speculations are true for AtomChip Corp.'s > (http://www.atomchip.com) Optical Technology. We wil begin to use > really large RAMs and Storages very early than we expected. > Their prototypes already begin with 1 TB (both for RAM and Storage). > It's not hard to imagine, a few years later, we can use 100-200 and up > TB Storages and RAMs. > Amazing technology, run XP on a 256 bit 6.8GHz protrietary quantum CPU, by breaking the words into 64 bit pieces and passing them to XP via a "RAM packet counter" device. And they run four copies of XP at once, too, and you don't need to boot them, they run instantly because... the web page says so? I assume this is a joke, a scam would have prices ;-) -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/