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Hi,

Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> Hi Guys and Gals,
> 
> First off I am not a troll, this is a serious email. I can not go into 
> to many fine points as I am bound by an NDA.
> 
> The problem:
> 
> I need to hold a text file in ram, the text file in the forseable future 
> could be up to 10TB in size.
> 
Can you tell us the expected response time?

You would need a lot of money if you really have to keep the data always 
in RAM.

Erich