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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (66994)	7/30/1999 1:29:00 AM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1575290

Re: "I know I have drilled you about this enough tonight, but do you know if RamBUST RAM was used? I am going to assume it is ran on a 133MHz bus. (What would be the use of Camino otherwise?)" Sorry, I don't know any more but it would seem logical. EP

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (66994)	7/30/1999 8:09:00 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 1575290

I wouldn't expect the K7 to ever use Rambus. Why take on the complexity and latency costs of squeezing 128 bits of 100MHZ RAM down to 16 bits, and then opening it back to 64 bits if you don't have to? Rambus was designed on the premis that it was impossible to build DRAM faster than 100MHZ. But all the major ram semicons are shipping 166MHZ SDRAM - today - check out the spec sheets at Micron, LG, Hitachi, etc. Rambus was a clever solution to a problem that turned out to not exist.