3 Dec
2001
3 Dec
'01
5:59 a.m.
I have a program by Charles Martin called CMFiler which I have used for
years and consider indispensable for exploring Doze machines. It is
somewhat like NC but with many more features and has worked (in a dos
window) thru all the MS upgrades(?) up to Win 98 at least.
It would occasionally give a message "bubble-sorting files" when I accessed
a drive. Does this simply mean sequentially ordering ?
Lawrence
On December 3, Allison wrote:
Reply to:
lgwalker(a)mts.net
It's not RAM per se.
It's basically a disk like structure, the difference is rather than rotate the
media they move the magnetic domains around. I have a few 128kbyte (1Mbit)
bubbles I use still.
Yup, it's sequentially accessed. At least one company still sells &
supports it, though I don't know if they're actually producing it at
this point.. It's a really neat technology. It moves the magnetic
domains around "tracks" in (if memory serves) a crystalline garnet
substrate. These domains can be set to "0" or "1" and are read by
moving them past a detector.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL