Architecture Background

Technical background--what's changed

  • Tbyte disk storage cost
  • Gbyte RAM cost
  • Mbit/sec+ communications
  • quality display

    • Library Implications

  • Virtual collection can be freed from physical collection
  • Can deliver contents to user's desktop
  • Can store and deliver images
  • Can navigate from one paper to another
  • New search/discovery techniques
  • world-wide search
  • full-text search
  • fast RAM search
    • Last Update: September 26, 1994; some rearrangement November 23, 1997
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