In message <20000212205125.A1370@best.com>, Karen Shaeffer writes:
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| That's real interesting Brandon, but that is quite a few years away.
| Sounds like an R&D plan that would get embraced in those four year
| Advanced R&D labs that the big disk drive companies have (Refer to my
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I'm given to understand that they have a *lot* of working ARMLinux-based
prototypes *right now*, sent to them by one of those big names. Although if
they don't talk about those, perhaps I shouldn't either :)
| And you'll note that those R&D programs are not entertaining the idea of
| _welding_ a general purpose processor on to the backend core processor. What
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Allow me to advance a different analysis: the proposal currently on the
table is *no longer research*. I recently saw an ad in a magazine for
one... 10GB (IIRC) disk + ARMLinux, plug into the network and use as a
standalone NFS/Samba server, or run a webserver on it, etc. NASD has moved
beyond that except insofar as they could be components. :)
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