In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/20/2006
at 02:16 PM, "(IBM Mainframe Discussion List)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
>New laboratory curiosities do not make it into commercial products
>until they can at least outperform the technology that everyone
>fantasizes about being replaced.
Bubble memory *did* make it into commercial products. It would have
been a great success had competing technologies stood still, but, of
course, they never do.
There was a similar story about how thin film was going to drive out
core. It turned out that semiconductor memory drove out thin film at a
time when core was still selling.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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