9 Apr
2011
9 Apr
'11
1:10 p.m.
Even implemented in relational databases the fastest storage engine yet
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/blackhole-storage-engine.html
Dave Caroline
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> wrote:
Isn't that the device at /dev/null?
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of
Tim Shoppa [shoppa at trailing-edge.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 10:53 AM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Quantum leap in disk storage discovered!
Way off topic, sorry, just couldn't resist.
In fact not off-topic at all, because this technology
existed nearly 40 years ago.
News from our fellow IT industry workers in
Russia: The chinese have invented a disk drive
that allows you to write an infinite amount of
data to it! Discovered by a Russian engineer. Be
sure to click the 2nd picture for a close-up look
at this amazing new technology.
http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/04/chinese-magic-drive.html
The Chinese are way way late to this invention.
Signetics had this area perfectly well covered in 1974
with the 25120 Fully Encoded, 9046xN, Random Access
Write-Only-Memory.
It was such an achievement that you can even read about
it in Bob Pease's part of the NatSemi website:
?http://www.national.com/rap/Story/WOMorigin.html
Tim.