[Info-vax] OT: Steve Wozniak

[Sue]

On Aug 17, 9:20 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 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_...
>
> 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/

Neil this is very cool, did you have a chance to meet him in person?
Any guy who plays polo on a segway has to be pretty interesting.

sue