Thanks, Tiger. I just pulled the 1.6 out of thin air. My point goes to two generations ahead, eg., in 2 years.
I remember when I and my (not yet) wife bought systems 10 years ago, I got a 286 and she got a 386sx. Both machines were the same speed when we bought them. Several years later, software was available for her machine that wouldn't run on mine. My machine was tossed before hers, needless to say.
For the last couple of years, we've been able to buy overprocessors for 486 machines, to get them to run at Pentium speeds.
There's been talk on this thread of migration path, and what companies will buy because they want a machine that will last as long as possible.
So, we're faced with buying a machine. (The machine I'm working on now is 4 years old. At 133Mhz, it was top of the line when we bought it. I've upgraded the ram, but still have the 133 cpu in it.)
My question is, will Rambus give me higher upside in my purchase this year? In a couple of years, maybe a 1 gig "Overdrive" processor? And 512Meg of RDRAM? (Are those more reasonable assumptions?) How will the performance of that machine compare with a DDR machine?
Maybe Tench and Dan3 can weigh in on this?
Best,
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