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Re: Fast forward-backward (write-read)

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Date	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:26:30 -0400
Subject	Re: Fast forward-backward (write-read)
From	David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com>
To	Virgil Stokes <vs@it.uu.se>
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Virgil Stokes <vs@it.uu.se> wrote:
> On 24-Oct-2012 00:57, Demian Brecht wrote:
>>>
>>> This is a classic example of why the old external processing algorithms
>>> of the 1960s and 70s will never be obsolete. No matter how much memory
>>> you have, there will always be times when you want to process more data
>>> than you can fit into memory.
>>
>>
>> But surely nobody will *ever* need more than 640k…
>>
>> Right?
>>
>> Demian Brecht
>> @demianbrecht
>> http://demianbrecht.github.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Yes, I can still remember such quotes --- thanks for jogging my memory,
> Demian :-)


This is only on equipment designed by others, otherwise, you could
engineer the hardware yourself to perfom just certain functions for
you(RISC), and pass that back to the CISC(from a PCB design).


-- 
Best Regards,
David Hutto
CEO: http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com

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Re: Fast forward-backward (write-read) David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2012-10-23 17:50 -0400
  Re: Fast forward-backward (write-read) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-23 22:53 +0000
    Re: Fast forward-backward (write-read) Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> - 2012-10-23 15:57 -0700
    Re: Fast forward-backward (write-read) David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2012-10-23 19:34 -0400
    Re: Fast forward-backward (write-read) Virgil Stokes <vs@it.uu.se> - 2012-10-24 09:17 +0200
    Re: Fast forward-backward (write-read) Virgil Stokes <vs@it.uu.se> - 2012-10-24 09:19 +0200
    Re: Fast forward-backward (write-read) David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2012-10-24 03:26 -0400
    Re: Fast forward-backward (write-read) Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-24 13:56 +0000

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