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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.arch
Subject: CAM, CAM, who's got a CAM
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Date: Wed, 23-May-84 16:07:01 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 16:07:01 1984
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Organization: CADLINC, Palo Alto, CA
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Content-addressable memories (CAMs) have vast numbers of applications
if only they were large enough or affordable enough.  I'm surprised
that there have been no new CAM IC's on the market in the past five
years, since the technology has improved tremendously to the point
where such the design and production would be trivial.  While the IC
manufacturers are busy making special-purpose widgets for controlling
automatic fubars, here's a general-purpose chip that has the potential
to increase performance by multiple magnitudes, and no one is
interested in making them.

Imagine what you could do with a $50 2Kx8 CAM!!!
-- 
Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Palo Alto, CA
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