Re: project

[scraft@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu (Steve Craft)]

fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:

>>Hmm, a very interesting idea. This brings up something I read a long time
>>ago. Although I can't remember how it worked, I do remember the term
>>"bubble memory". I think it was supposed to be a low power memory system
>>of some sort. I wonder if this could be adapted to your idea.

>Ahh, yes, I was gonna ask what happened to the bubble memory?  I was
>reading some sort of old "new technologies" book, and it said bubble
>memory was suppose to replace DRAM.  What happended?

>-- 
>frank m. lin
>fmlin@netcom.com

Ahh, bubble memory.
 
Bubble memory is 6 kinds of slow.  It's only real use nowadays (comparing
today's bubble memory to today's DRAMs) is for military applications.  They
get used in artillery computers and stuff which don't have to be the
absolute fastest and can withstand an electromagnetic pulse.  You'd
be real upset if you bought a bubble memory RAM card and expect a lot of
speed.  Ditto if
you used a lot of it as a hard drive.  Of couse, if there was a faraway
nuclear attack, and you were within the EM pulse radius, your GS would
still keep GNO running. :)