IBM picked the x86, or the 8088 to be more accurate, for cost. The 8088 was 16bit internal but 8bit external which allowed IBM to use cheaper off the shelf components in the original PC. They were looking at the 68k at the same time but the costs would have been much higher. The rest as they say is history
What he is doing is no worst than what I have seen in the private sector my entire life. You first draw your curve (form an opinion) then populate your graph with only the data that fits your curve. And unless you are in an area that is doing pure research (and peer review) this data is very rarely examined. How many out there have not seen this in practice?
The heads in a hard drive flys over the surface of the platter on a 'cushion' of air. At 15,000 feet you have half the atmosphere as at sea level. This will make the heads fly closer to the platter which will make them more susceptible to shock damage.
Actually the GMR heads used today do have a separate read and write section. The problem is since the heads travel in an arch across the platters the relation between where data is written and the where the read portion of the head is changes and has to be micro adjusted all the time. In the old days there was one head for reading and writing (Ferrite beads and thinfilm technology). In modern drives every platter in the drive you will have two heads, one for the top and one for the bottom of the platter. So in the high capacity drives you will have three platters and six heads with the heads all being connected to the same linear stepper motor. While in theory you could add another head stack and motor to a drive assembly I don't believe the added complexity (read failure rate) would provide enough benefit to justify the cost.
Since I worked in the Disk Drive Industry I was putting together a more meaningful and 'interesting' post but then my ADD kicked on and you see what you got. FWIW Hard Drives are always going to be a couple of generations ahead of Solid State Storage. HD space is down to approx. 24 cents a GB. I don't see Solid State at that level for quite awhile. Oh, gotta go, shiny object.
"look around, isn't the fact thet you are alive proof enough that there is some force in the universerse much more powerful then anything you have ever experienced."
Slashdot Mirror
IBM picked the x86, or the 8088 to be more accurate, for cost. The 8088 was 16bit internal but 8bit external which allowed IBM to use cheaper off the shelf components in the original PC. They were looking at the 68k at the same time but the costs would have been much higher. The rest as they say is history
What he is doing is no worst than what I have seen in the private sector my entire life. You first draw your curve (form an opinion) then populate your graph with only the data that fits your curve. And unless you are in an area that is doing pure research (and peer review) this data is very rarely examined. How many out there have not seen this in practice?
"an complete requirements list"? You luck bastard! I'm lucky to get a half page of 'notes'.
The heads in a hard drive flys over the surface of the platter on a 'cushion' of air. At 15,000 feet you have half the atmosphere as at sea level. This will make the heads fly closer to the platter which will make them more susceptible to shock damage.
Actually the GMR heads used today do have a separate read and write section. The problem is since the heads travel in an arch across the platters the relation between where data is written and the where the read portion of the head is changes and has to be micro adjusted all the time. In the old days there was one head for reading and writing (Ferrite beads and thinfilm technology). In modern drives every platter in the drive you will have two heads, one for the top and one for the bottom of the platter. So in the high capacity drives you will have three platters and six heads with the heads all being connected to the same linear stepper motor. While in theory you could add another head stack and motor to a drive assembly I don't believe the added complexity (read failure rate) would provide enough benefit to justify the cost.
Since I worked in the Disk Drive Industry I was putting together a more meaningful and 'interesting' post but then my ADD kicked on and you see what you got. FWIW Hard Drives are always going to be a couple of generations ahead of Solid State Storage. HD space is down to approx. 24 cents a GB. I don't see Solid State at that level for quite awhile. Oh, gotta go, shiny object.
Not! I tried.
FP
So you've met my girl friend then?
Three lefts do
You forgot "Bastards"
No, his kid now has a weapon to get a reaction out of his parents.
Kewl
A new State of the Art Chip FAB can cost Billions of Dollars (with a B).
Two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts do.
-Pete
I had a bumper sticker
"Don't Mess with Texas, just nuke'um"
Kinda sad that after three year since "Mission Accomplished" it is still an environment that they need robots.
And tastes the same, that's a minus
But I just saw on CSI that you can enlarge a picture and recover the image already.
"Now just how long before congress and the president is outsourced to india? ;)"
If there is a God... Tommorrow
"look around, isn't the fact thet you are alive proof enough that there is some force in the universerse much more powerful then anything you have ever experienced."
Mom?
Stupid Idiot? That would mean that there exists a Smart Idiot?
I also flinch, but it's when my wife says "We need to talk".
Fear of women in leather with swords?
Isn't that what Bush is calling the failure in Iraq?