26 Oct
1998
26 Oct
'98
1:34 a.m.
Jerome Fine wrote:
Incidentally, a quick quiz. Assuming all the virtual
address space was
physical memory and you wanted to make a copy onto a disk drive
(32 Trillion Bytes - we didn't even have GigaBytes back in 1972, let alone
TeraBytes), how long would a sustained WRITE at 1 MByte/second take?
Hint: Answer should be in ONE digit of precision along with a time interval.
Eager beavers who want to give us 8 significant figures of precision
are disqualified.
One year (less almost two weeks vacation for the sysadmin who will
surely need one by then) assuming no down time (in which case the
sysadmin will _really_ need that vacation).
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