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From: david@daisy.UUCP (David Schachter)
Newsgroups: net.micro.16k
Subject: Re: Corrigenda
Message-ID: <69@daisy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 03:12:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 26 03:12:16 1985
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Reply-To: david@daisy.UUCP (David Schachter)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca
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I agree with Mr. Von Rospach.  16 MB is quite a lot of memory.  At Daisy
Systems, we get excellent results with a mere 4 MB on our Intel 80286-based
systems.  We have put 16 MB (15 3/4, actually) on several internal test
stations, to see what happens, and the systems work happily away.  To my know-
ledge, none of our customers has had need for more than 4 MB.  By late 1987, I
expect they will find 16 MB limiting.  But by then, Mr. Von Rospach's company
will have the 32-bit version of the NS32000 family; Motorola will, quite
possibly, be shipping the MC68020 with the real MMU; and Intel will be
shipping the 80386, its "big-boy" version of the 4004.  (A spot of humor
there.)  The 24 bit address bus of the NS32032 is not a problem.  The
data bus, the internal register width, and the ALU width are more important
measures, currently.

[The above does not necessarily represent the views or policy of Daisy Systems
Corporation.  The opinions expressed above are soley those of the author who
takes full responsibility for them.  The author has a mental age equal to his
interpupillary distance measured in milli-furlongs.] {Too much of a good thing
can be wonderful.  -- Mae West}