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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin

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Nov 21 3:59 PM EST

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To: Dave B who wrote (25379)	7/20/1999 5:35:00 PM
From: John Walliker	Read Replies (1) of 93625

Dave, I agree. I think a more comparable situation is VESA vs PCI,... I think VESA was a "local bus" - just a full-speed extension of the 486 processor bus which was only used for graphics cards. There was no real way forward because once the processor bus changed VESA would break. In contrast, PCI was designed to be independent of the details of the processor bus, hence the need for the extra cost of bridge chips. The payoff was that the bus stayed the same through several generations of processor (even Sun workstations can support PCI) and it became very widely used, even for applications like modems that don't strictly need it. Similarly, Rambus is the memory interface which can readily be scaled to the higher performance requirements of the future. John

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