To: CyberCowboy777
IBM recently announced a line of micro mainframes. I'm curious what they are doing. PCs have long had more CPU power than mainframes, but have been limited by slow memory and storage access. It should be possible to build a system that feeds the CPU continuously and eliminates most of the waiting.
This would mean that storage devices would be a lot smarter than they are now.
47 posted on
05/05/2004 12:05:04 PM PDT by
js1138
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To: js1138
It should be possible to build a system...
It is. Just not at the prices consumers are willing to pay for desktop PCs.
61 posted on
05/05/2004 12:14:18 PM PDT by
brbethke
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