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To: Eric.sun who wrote (18436)	8/3/1999 4:09:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Man, the market didn't exactly mourn the leaving of Alan Baratz today. Apparently, they weren't looking for him to turn the Sun software fortunes around anyway. It looks like we've got some serious momentum and are about to make another run(?). -JCJ

To: Eric.sun who wrote (18436)	8/3/1999 5:26:00 PM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 64865

But my impression is RAMBUS dram is used in video or graphics frame buffer area in the past you are correct. there were two rambus graphics chips. next month with the release of the camino chipset intel moves rambus to main memory. that will be followed by coppermine for portables. dell has already announced they will have rambus workstations and pc's next month. pixelfusion is supposed to demo a rambus enabled graphics chip next week at siggraph with 18x the bandwidth of sdram. sony pII announced the use of 32mb of rambus in two 128 pieces. the gameset is widely believed to have a cpu using the rdram as main memory. probably true since the selling price is north of $400. intel has pre announced the timna chipset for lowend computers to be released next year. intel says timna will only support rambus rdram. i was thinking magc was a direct competitor for timna and or the sony pII which has a modem and basic computing functions. suppose we will all find out in a few days. unclewest just curious, what memory would you expect to see sun use in majc? edit...just read the news release... One of the things that makes Java percolate is that it sends more than one option, or "thread," to a computer user at once. Industry analyst Tom Halfhill of Cahners' Micro Design Resources says the new chip design encourages experimentation with this multiple-command language. "You could have one [chip] that displays graphics, another that decodes streaming audio and video, another that prints something. If you're writing in Java, it's [already] almost too easy to write more threads. I've done that sometimes myself." this is where rambus is the optimum solution.