Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:
>On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, JimD wrote:
>
> > >Or you can just wait about 2-3 years until the next generation
> > >microprocessors surpass it in power for only $1,200.
> > >
> > Not for a while, Can you get a machine with 100Gb of ram and 40
> > terabyte of storage for $1200, even in ten years ( maybe)? You've been
> > reading too many IEEE spectrum mags again Selam.
>
>Actually, 10 years from now we'll probably have machines with 100Tb of RAM
>and 40Pb (petabytes) of storage!
Revenge is sweet... ;^> My turn to zing you, Sellam!
Lowercase b is bits, uppercase B is Bytes; so it'd be 100TB RAM and 40PB
drive space...
... and we could finally have Exabyte tape drives that store an Exabyte!
;-)
>And Windows will STILL run slow!!
Oh, I dunno -- by then Windows 3.1 might finally run acceptably...
;-)
Laterz,
"Merch"
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
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(?||?) If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
_)(_ disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
Received on Fri Feb 25 2005 - 08:57:02 GMT