From: Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>
Subject: Re: gnat and heap size
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:57:28 GMT
Date: 2001-09-27T16:57:28+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BB35A6E.FBF7864A@san.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: GKBxLF.ICJ@news.boeing.com
Dale Pennington wrote:
> You might note, that is one sugar cube was one terrabyte (i.e. 10**12
> bytes), then it would take a MegaSugarCube with approximately 262 sugar
> cubes to a side to hold 2**64 bytes of data. I am not sure of the dimensions
> of a sugar cube, but if one were to assume a 0.25" sugar cube, that would be
> be about 5 1/2" per side cube. Note too bad for a fixed site, but a but
> large for a laptop.
Not really on topic, but...
When I read about these, they worked by focussing lasers thru the cube
to intersect at a point, causing the die in the cube to change color. I
don't imagine it would work as well through 5.5" of cube as it would
through 0.25" of cube. It was also write-once.
--
Darren New
San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand.
Who is this Dr. Ibid anyway,
and how does he know so much?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-27 16:57 UTC|newest]
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 ` Holographic memory (Was: gnat and heap size) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-09-27 16:26 ` gnat and heap size Dale Pennington
2001-09-27 16:57 ` Darren New [this message]
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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