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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: MileHigh who wrote (61803)6/9/1999 12:35:00 PM
From: Michael Bakunin  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
The story with Betamax is apropos for two reasons. One, it was by far the superior technology -- but it lost because of Sony's muddling and the power of standards. Another nice analogy here is ethernet: not the best, but cheap and standard. There may not have been a roadmap from 10M to 100 to giga, but everyone had it and it's worked out fine. The second reason I brought up beta was to remind you that Sony is not infallible; Beta died, and more recently Minidisc is not the success they wanted. To answer your question, I don't know why they chose RDRAM, but I can think of some reasons. As a game machine, Sony's box will have special needs; perhaps high memory bandwidth is among them. Standards are less important for any closed platform like this; you don't see 'em using the PIII, but I'd hesitate to draw conclusions from that about PIII's PC future. Why do you think they picked RDRAM? -mb
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