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From: elwin@Athena.MIT.EDU (Lee W Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Self-modifying code
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Date: 16 Oct 89 12:55:39 GMT
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>>There is no defense against the ATTACK OF THE KILLER MICROS!
>
>We've been through this before.  When micros want to supplant the high-end
>supers, they'll have to come up with answers to the age-old (well, ok, 
>maybe 15 years old) problem of how to build a memory that will keep a fast
>CPU fed.  Such a memory costs a Whole Lot Of Money.  When you've sunk a lot
>  ...

Reminds me of the old joke about the Cray 1, with about 4 megawords of
fast static ram: if you buy the memory, for $1 per word (not an unreasonable
price in those days), Cray would throw in the CPU for free!

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