IBM has demonstrated areal densities of three billion bit
s per square inch. There are about 10 million billion atoms per square inch on the surface of the disk. If data density continues to increase at the same rate it has in the past -- a very big "if" -- the physical limits of magnetic storage could be reached sometime early in the next century.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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