pwasilko@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Wasilko) (11/12/89)
Query: What is the current state of the art in non-volatile solid state memory technology? The most recent material in our library is of 1985 vintage with references to 512K bubble memory chips, 128K removable bubble memory cartridges, and some hints at associative memories, direct editing, and high speed search capabilities becoming available on the bubble chips themselves. How do the speeds of current bubble systems compare with other storage media like floppies or hard-drives? I also recall fleeting references back around '87 to some experimental non-volatile RAM chips I think based on a miniaturized version of the original ferrite core memories of the original mainframes. Another blurb that comes to mind was about a system using credit card sized plastic wafers as an optical storage medium. Not quite non- volatile ram, but suitable for a system boot drive perhaps. At any rate I'd love to see a thread develop on solid state non-volatile memory or on any novel high capacity storage technologies. Peter J. Wasilko | "I'm not stupid, I'm not expendable, Syracuse Law '91 | and I'm not going...." JWasilko@Sunrise.Acs.Syr.Edu | --- Avon