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Subject: 500Mbyte ROMS and more...
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Date: Fri, 11-May-84 11:37:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 11 11:37:00 1984
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From:  Russ Smith <smith@NRL-AIC.ARPA>

A previous note of mine had a wish that someone would develop an
AI machine with a HUGE physical (as opposed to virtual) address
space. Well, no sooner said then done. Motorola has decided to
put their 68012 processor in an 84-lead pin-grid-array-style IC (*).
Thirty one (31) of the pins are for address...2 Gigabytes directly
non-virtually addressable memory...time to start thinking about
building another home machine...Okay memory manufacturers, now where
are those 500 Mbyte RAM chips I've been waiting for?

Where goes Motorola (et al), where goes the world?

Russ <Smith@nrl-aic>
NCARAI

(*) According to the May 3, 1984 edition of ELECTRONIC DESIGN, page 31.