Time for 64-bit longs?

[Henry Spencer]

> The "RA-82" is not available separately and DEC has not announced any
> plans to market it that way...

DEC just wants you to buy the package deal rather than waiting to buy only
as many drives as you need.  Scuttlebutt has it that the RA82 will be
available this summer.

> DEC has said the technology is on its
> last legs and any future products will use fancy stuff like thin film
> heads and plated media...

A cynical man would say that the RA disk technology has been on its last
legs ever since it was announced!  One rumor is that the SA482/RA82
announcement has been repeatedly postponed because all available supplies
of HDAs were going to Field Service as replacements for failing RA81 HDAs.
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