[Info-vax] OT: Steve Wozniak

[Neil Rieck]

I, along with 700 others, just had breakfast with Steve Wozniac at a
conference sponsored by Waterloo Ontario companies like RIM, Dalsa and
Open Text.
http://www.communitech.ca/en/

Boy, I thought I was an optimist but this guy's optimism is
overflowing and infectious. Why would you OpenVMS people care about
this? The Woz now works for a company called "fusion i/o"
http://www.fusionio.com/
and he mentioned that big companies, like HP and IBM, are using
"fusion i/o" solid-state storage technology to set new TPC transaction
records while beating fiber-connected storage arrays by 10 times or
more (and costing a whole lot less)

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9100218/HP_adding_solid_state_memory_to_its_servers

In their view, multi-core CPU processors will only get faster which
means that magnetic storage will continue to starve them of data. They
feel that solid-state storage will become the primary system memory
while hard disks will be relegated to doing off-system backups.

Now let's see if their vision comes to fruition.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/