Jerome Fine wrote:
> Incidentally, a quick quiz. Assuming all the virtual address space was
> physical memory and you wanted to make a copy onto a disk drive
> (32 Trillion Bytes - we didn't even have GigaBytes back in 1972, let alone
> TeraBytes), how long would a sustained WRITE at 1 MByte/second take?
> Hint: Answer should be in ONE digit of precision along with a time interval.
> Eager beavers who want to give us 8 significant figures of precision
> are disqualified.
One year (less almost two weeks vacation for the sysadmin who will
surely need one by then) assuming no down time (in which case the
sysadmin will _really_ need that vacation).
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Received on Mon Oct 26 1998 - 09:34:25 GMT