hi ya guy On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Guy wrote: > HAY! DON'T CALL ME GRANDPA!!!! Not for a few more years at least! wasn't calling ya grandpa :-) > And I was there! And beyond! My first home computer had a 4K card and an > 8K card, if I recall. It was 6800 based. I wonder if I still have it? I ahh .. that's 3rd generation stuff ... 4004 and Z8 and lots o no-namebrand what-you-ma-call-it-kits and i forgot what predated 6800 in motorola/zilog besides z8 .. getting too old > You said memory was 10x the cost of disks. In the example above, memory is > 25x more than disk. Today it is about 100x. 500x - 1000x in my book but that depends on how one counts > Maybe we should be swapping even more, now? :) disks are cheaper per byte of storage ??? 500MB for $50 250,000MB for $250 ( 250GB disks ) i leave it to you math wiz folks to generate $$$/MB c ya alvin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
