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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.databases
Subject: Re: Unix machines for large databases
Message-ID: <4860@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 7 May 88 23:14:19 GMT
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esf00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) writes:
>UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>>billo@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Bill O) says:
>>>Help! By Friday we need to know if there is a Unix-based box that
>>>can work as a very high-performance data-base server.  Yes, there are

>>Sure there is.  You can run Unix on a Cray.

>Or on an Amdahl 5890/5990 running UTS.  You may have a floor space
>problem past several Tb.

Check out optical disk drives.  I believe DEC is now selling them
for the VAX line; I'd immagine that most other vendors have similar
products in mind.  They can solve your floor space problems well
beyond "several Tb", and, being write-once-read-many (WORM) are well-
suited to an application requiring a permanent history.  Typically
they are large enough so that you don't fill them very fast even if
you don't care about a permanent record.

    ;-D on  ( Bliss is Bliss, Ignorance is Ignorance, I'm happy )  Pardo