Dave,
Re: since the typical applications are generally not bandwidth limited.
Given that that's the case, you could still be using your 286 to type letters and get e-mail.
I don't know what you are referring to. My computer has a more advanced memory: PC-100 CAS2 SDRAM, much faster that what my 286 had. And I have plenty of it: 384 MB.
OTOH, by advancing the technology beyond "today's requirements", they've enabled desktop video, speech recognition, and a whole slew of new applications.
All these work fine with $100 pe MB SDRAM just fine. When what I have is not enough, I will upgrade my computer.
Technology will continue to advance, and large datastreams will grow to be more and more significant a part of the processing we do.
Where will this datastream come from?
Fast Ethernet? No: 10 MBs
Ethernet? No: 1 MBs
Internet? No, 0.2 KBs (T1)
Hard disk? No, 40 MBs
CD-ROM? No, 5 MBs
DVD? Ditto.
PC-100 SDRAM? 800 MBs
RDRAM will be needed for those new applications.
Let me know when these applications that will need RDRAM arrive. I don't know a single application for sale that needs RDRAM. In the meantime, I would have to be out of my mind to spend extra $3,000 to get RDRAM instead of SDRAM.
Joe |
