[rescue] Tape drive woes

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Phil Stracchino says ...

> NanoMarket estimates that
> by 2011, the various naoscale memory technologies (*most* of which are
> fast, non-volatile and radiation-hard, by the way), will own
> 40% of the current *combined* RAM and disk market.

I wonder if computing machinery and operating systems will get redesigned to
take advantage of this.  If all your storage (and video display) is just one
huge block of memory, a lot of the current complexity can just go away.  I
predict interesting times.

-Shel