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From: david@daisy.UUCP (David Schachter)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Disk drives -- speed of?
Message-ID: <1131@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 88 23:38:55 GMT
References: <2746@sundc.UUCP> <76700012@uiucdcsp> <2759@sundc.UUCP> <887@gethen.UUCP> <740@nitrex.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@daisy.UUCP (David Schachter)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <740@nitrex.UUCP> rbl@nitrex.UUCP ( Dr. Robin Lake ) writes:
>There appear to be systems under development that move the I/O
>overhead into the memory management unit and device controllers, letting
>the CPU use very simple 1 - 5 instruction I/O commands.  This can result
>in a uniform "Name Space" for the entire system, from main memory through
>disk, tape and networks.  With RISC and cache taking essentially all delays
>out of the CPU, and (for the sake of an acryonym  "Uniform Name Space")
>taking essentially all delays out of the I/O, performance should be
>OUTSTANDING!


Your last point sounds interesting-- please tell us more.