> From: Jack Hamilton [mailto:JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM]
> "Fehd, Ronald J. (PHPPO)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV> wrote:
> >Somebody should tell this krewe that
> >Real Number Crunchers don't need to do all their work
> >in memory.
>
> A friend works for a company that maintains and sells access
> to a large data base.
>
> They're converting from MVS to Unix (Solaris, I think) and
> getting a new server.
>
> 894GB of memory, If I Recall Correctly.
>
> I'm jealous.

>rightly so!

>looks like we're coming full circle:

>1950s: "... and on this floor we have The Computer."




>2000s: "... and on this floor we have The Computer's Memory"

>Ron Fehd  the macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2@cdc.gov

>My computer must be broken:
>whenever I add enough memory
         It falls thru the floor.
>-- RJF2


Where ya been bozo?  My little 1GB flash memory device weighs about 25grams and occupies about .37 cubic inches and that includes the plastic case.     Don't you think the 2000s will be known for how memory shrank?  Before the first decade is out, the engineers will have put 894GB inside the head of a pin if not the point.

"Joe Whitehurst" <joewhite@mindspring.com> wrote in message > Where ya been
bozo?  My little 1GB flash memory device weighs about 25grams and occupies
about .37 cubic inches and that includes the plastic case.     Don't you
think the 2000s will be known for how memory shrank?  Before the first
decade is out, the engineers will have put 894GB inside the head of a pin if
not the point.

Now, if only they could do that with regards to human courtesy.