Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!psuvax1!gatech!mcnc!uvaarpa!hudson!astsun3!gsh7w From: gsh7w@astsun3.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Scott Hennessy) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: *big iron* Message-ID: <2045@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 28 Sep 89 14:24:40 GMT References: <22488@cup.portal.com> <280001@hpdml93.HP.COM> <9911@venera.isi.edu> <34298@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Sender: news@hudson.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: gsh7w@astsun3 (Greg Scott Hennessy) Organization: University of Virginia, Charlottesville Lines: 13 In article <34298@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes: #Thinking Machines' Data Vault is a fine example of the right way to #build an IO system these days. #The system has 72 drives #implementing a 64 bit wide data path with one bit per drive. What are the extra 8 drives used for? Parity? -Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia USPS Mail: Astronomy Department, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA Internet: gsh7w@virginia.edu UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!gsh7w