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From: hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb)
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Subject: Re: 1st 64 Megabit DRAM
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Date: 12 Jun 90 21:28:40 GMT
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	The mistakes of the present carried to the technology of the future.

	Eight MegaBytes stacked behind a 50ns nibble-wide port is
almost a second for a blind burst read.

	A 24-bit wide "full color" bitplane built from these suckers
only gives a 500x800 display at 50Hz.  (thou you could have 40 such
screens packed in the chips).

	Just give me a port with 21 bits of address and 32 bits of
data for direct connection to my CPU.  If I need more than 8MB of RAM,
I'll probably need more than one processor anyway.

	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
	Tyrant of the SFB-tactics E-Mailing list.