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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Holographic memory (Was: gnat and heap size)
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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."