Re: testing/pre-7 and do_poll()

Helge Hafting (helge.hafting@daldata.no)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:17:10 +0100


> On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > Hey, I want to see the memory subsystems for it..
> >
> > Linus
>
> Actually, I would imagine that such a processor could use a very long
> nano-manufactured fiber loop as memory. Sorta like mercury tube storage...

If you can make an optical processor with transistor-like switches,
then you have no problems making memory with the same technology.

Of course the tube storage may be more economic for large memory
systems, for the same reasons that pc's don't use
uncached SRAM exclusively.

Helge Hafting

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