nak@cbnews.ATT.COM (Neil A. Kirby) (10/27/88)
...might be 1 Gb communications bandwidth. Right now the phone
system trunks run 1.7 Gb over fiber. Current workstations chew up 10
Mb Ethernets to load their 4-16 MB ram stores. New 1GB workstations
might want 1Gb communications to load their main stores with remote
data. Not everything runs like a diskless Sun, but when you ask the
programs running on a 3G machine to find something out they may not
access to large amounts of data held elsewhere.
"So Giga-CAD, do all of the parts and the design of this bridge meet
the engineering specs in the European Common Market Nations?"
The CAD program now has to go look at lots of data it may not have and
compare it with data it does have.
Neil Kirby
...cbsck!nak