From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,124905131f269735 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-27 09:57:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjcppf01.usenetserver.com!usenetserver.com!news-west.rr.com!lsnws01.we.mediaone.net!typhoon.san.rr.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BB35A6E.FBF7864A@san.rr.com> From: Darren New Organization: Boxes! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: gnat and heap size References: <1001442590.557811@news.drenet.dnd.ca> <%26s7.4950$ev2.8194@www.newsranger.com> <9oqs5k$jjq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9osjpt$a5l$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9osq5a$crn$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9ov8a4$b71$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:57:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.san.rr.com 1001609848 66.75.151.160 (Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:57:28 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:57:28 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13439 Date: 2001-09-27T16:57:28+00:00 List-Id: 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?