Hi Charles.

02-Nov-03 06:59:00, Charles Angelich wrote to Roy J. Tellason


 CA> 1237dab91d04 tech

 CA> Hello Roy -

 PS>>>>> Heh. Exactly the reason why I have 640M in my machine. Now
 PS>>>>> imagine how fast a machine with an on-CPU cache of that size
 PS>>>>> would be. ;)

 CA>>> Intel will get around to that eventually. :-)

 PS>>> Yeah, more stuff than now will probably end up in the CPU core
 PS>>> because designing motherboards (not to speak of the parts
 PS>>> needed) for the insane speeds that CPUs nowadays run at is
 PS>>> almost impossible. You simply can't have an on-board bus going
 PS>>> at, say, 3 GHz. To the CPU, everything outside it's core runs at
 PS>>> snail's pace.

 CA>>> I just hope they find something better than water to cool these
 CA>>> things. Water + electricity = bad (IMO).

 RJT>> What was it, Cray machines that immersed the works in freon?
 RJT>> That probably wouldn't go over too well these days either...

 RJT>> Though there *are* other refrigerants out there. You'd end up
 RJT>> dumping the heat into the room, though.

 CA> That's where it dumps now.

 CA>>> There is also much serious discussion that the mechanical hard
 CA>>> drive has outlived it's usefulness and should be replaced by
 CA>>> rows of flash cards (or something similar).

 RJT>> I thought that stuff only had some limited number of write
 RJT>> cycles available to it?

 CA> I'm only referring to a type of memory that does not require
 CA> constant 'refresh' cycling. There are many types.

 RJT>> Can you imagine using such stuff for swap? :-)

 CA> With one gig or more of memory why would you _need_ swap. Swap is
 CA> a poor man's additional memory remember?

If you can buy a CPU twice the speed (or twice as many) with the money you
save on ram swap can be good.

 CA>>> I for one won't miss the mechanical hard drives one bit.

given the trends in reliability neither will I

 CA> The fans are annoying as a form of obligatory 'white noise'. Try
 CA> watching TV with 4 computers turned on. You need much more volume
 CA> from the TV to understand speech.

a 16" hard drive isn't quiet either....

 -=> Bye <=-

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