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Article: Solid-state disks get DEC stamp of approval: is 10 x the speed worth 100 x the price of magnetic disks. (product announcement)
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- May 18, 1989
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Solid-state disks get DEC stamp of approval MAYNARD, MA--Increasing CPU speeds and the greater use of networked minicomputers, both of which can render systems I/O bound, have led the world's second largest computer manufacturer to turn to solid-state memory as a peripheral storage device.
Digital Equipment Corp put the stamp of legitimacy on solid-state disks last month when it anounced its ESE20, a 120M-byte solid-state disk for use in I/O-intensive applications on large VAX and VAX-cluster systems. The product uses dynamic-RAM boards and is compatible with DEC's digital-storage architecture (DSA), so it works with the VAX machines without any software ...