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From: amc@ai.wustl.edu (Adam M. Costello)
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Subject: Re: Why put Kickstart on A3000 ROM? (was Re: 512K FastRam)
Message-ID: <1990Sep1.190150.5880@cec1.wustl.edu>
Date: 1 Sep 90 19:01:50 GMT
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In article <1990Sep1.133213.6765@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> leblanc@eecg.toronto.edu (Marcel LeBlanc) writes:
>much rather pay for an extra 512K of RAM!  The RAM costs less than the ROM,
>and has much faster access times (especially the SC RAM).  Remember that all

RAM costs less than ROM?  I'm surprised.  How much less?  RAM is faster than
ROM?  I'm surprised.  How much faster?  It seems to me that ROM must be simpler
than RAM, so it should be easier and cheaper to make it faster.  Why isn't it?
AMC