In a message dated 6/20/2006 12:57:50 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>What ever happened to IBM's bubble memory? New laboratory curiosities do not make it into commercial products until they can at least outperform the technology that everyone fantasizes about being replaced. While tweaking novel ideas in the lab, the extant technology is not standing still either. Brown, round, and spinning disk technology keeps getting bigger, better, faster, cheaper than bubble memory, optical disk, store one bit per atom, superconductive whatever, etc., at an astonishing and unending rate of annual increase. I attended a technical session at a regional CMG in early 1994 done by an IBM San Jose disk engineer named Bill Donovan, who had been in on the development of every IBM disk product since day zero, which was long before S/360. For the reason I just cited, he predicted that we would still have spinning disks for at least 15 years. That would be 2009. No replacement is yet in sight. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
