From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Holographic memory (Was: gnat and heap size)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 17:25:06 +0200
Date: 2001-09-27T17:25:06+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BB344D2.F3613F04@nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9ov8a4$b71$1@nh.pace.co.uk
Marin:
> I like holographic memory and remember reading about research on such
> devices several years ago. I'm wondering why it never made it out of the
> lab? Too expensive? Too hard to produce? Too unreliable? Something must have
> got in its way to the market because its been a long time since I heard tell
> of the devices working in labs and I don't see any on the shelves at
> CompUSA... Hmmmmm.....
I think the main problem is that the holographic memory
readers/writers still are slightly too large for the shelves
in CompUSA. The system at Ris� National Laboratory was close
to three cubic meter (most of it air, though) last time I
saw it.
Jacob
--
"There is nothing worse than having only one drunk head."
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-25 18:29 gnat and heap size Claude Marinier
2001-09-25 20:46 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-25 21:15 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-25 21:49 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 13:04 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-26 13:39 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 14:18 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-26 14:27 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-26 14:53 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-26 17:21 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-26 18:12 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-26 18:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-27 7:20 ` Martin Dowie
2001-09-26 21:16 ` Pascal Obry
2001-09-27 13:07 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-27 15:25 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2001-09-27 16:26 ` Dale Pennington
2001-09-27 16:57 ` Darren New
2001-09-27 16:58 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-27 19:19 ` tmoran
2001-09-26 14:13 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-27 10:39 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2001-09-25 22:40 ` David Starner
2001-09-26 2:12 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-26 13:36 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 2:13 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-26 13:29 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-25 23:10 ` Dr Adrian Wrigley
2001-09-26 9:09 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-09-26 13:58 ` The decline of programming civilization (was: gnat and heap size) Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 13:44 ` gnat and heap size Claude Marinier
2001-09-26 14:55 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 20:45 ` Erik Johannessen
2001-09-27 6:12 ` Dr Adrian Wrigley
2001-09-27 18:23 ` erij
2001-09-27 9:02 ` Erik Johannessen
2001-09-27 13:27 ` Gerald Kasner
2001-09-27 17:48 ` erij
2001-09-27 14:11 ` Peter F. Gath
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