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From: dieter@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Dieter Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: DRAM prices.
Message-ID: <534@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 88 05:07:46 GMT
References: <870@.UUCP>
Reply-To: dieter@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Dieter Muller)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM
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In article <870@.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>When I get depressed about DRAM prices, I just look up at the wall behind my
>terminal. Sitting in a nice bronze frame is a 256 kilobit CORE memory card.
>It probably cost a few thousand dollars, new. Thirty-odd dollars for 256 by
>1 DRAMS doesn't seem quite like such an imposition after all.

And I tend to think back to the good old days when I paid $300 for eight
4K x 1 bit DRAMs.  Some how, I have trouble feeling great sympathy for
people who feel they need several megabytes of memory.  I have several
programs on my venerable 6502 system that out-perform the big monster
workstations, usually due to good algorithms -> tight, fast code.  Even
UNIX, that "small, fast" system, has a 550K kernel on our Sun 3/160.
To think it used to fit into a PDP-11 w/ 64K....

I'll crawl back under my rock now.
Dieter
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