[rescue] Vaxen?

[Mike Meredith]

On Saturday 27 April 2002 17:22, Scott Newell wrote:
> At 11:57 AM 4/27/2002 -0400, dave at cca.org wrote:
> >I still want a cabinet of core with a SCSI interface.
>
> Another goofy memory idea:  take a box the size of a cdrom, fill it

It's not so goofy ... it's been done.

> with the biggest, cheapest ram you can find, stick an IDE/SCSI
> interface on it. Maybe even run some kind of low power battery
> backup/refresh circuit so that the sucker is nonvolatile.  I'll bet
> you could physically fit several GB, and it would be one _fast_
> drive.

The usual practice is to backup the memory with disk; I've seen boxes
with up to 32Gbyte in size, but haven't been seriously looking since
the days when memory was still very expensive (and yes, there were
still SSDs back then).

> Not really practical anymore with 64 bit CPUs and their huge address
> space, I guess.

Database people love them.