a dram of whisky ?

dram은 메모리의 일종이지만, 과거에는 전혀 다르게 사용되었다.

dram과 gill이 스코트랜드 위스키의 단위로 사용되다가 오래 전 법적으로 금지되었는데, 최근 다시 사용하려고 노력하는 모양이다.

예전에는 3.5 ml였지만, 지금은 25 ml나 35 ml로 쓰려고 한다니 딱 위스키 한잔에 해당되는 용량이다.


http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/campaign-to-bring-back-the-whisky-dram-launched-1-2878897

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/demand-to-quantify-dram-as-a-measure-of-whisky.20708857

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/business-consumer/spirit-speyside-whisky-festival-launch-1811911

RAMcloud

http://www.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/ramcloud.pdf


Abstract

Disk-oriented approaches to online storage are becoming increasingly problematic: they do not scale gracefully to meet the needs of large-scale Web applications, and improvements in disk capacity have far outstripped improvements in access latency and bandwidth. This paper argues for a new approach to datacenter storage called RAMCloud, where information is kept entirely in DRAM and large-scale systems are created by aggregating the main memories of thousands of commodity servers. We believe that RAMClouds can provide durable and available storage with 100-1000x the throughput of disk-based systems and 100-1000x lower access latency. The combination of low latency and large scale will enable a new breed of dataintensive applications.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-memory_database