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To: Dave B who wrote (28149)	8/31/1999 7:45:00 AM
From: John Walliker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Dave, As far as I, or anyone else, can tell, he's just another user of powerful computing systems, which doesn't qualify him as any kind of expert on what's under the hood. You have no idea if he's qualified or not. He may be, but you don't know that from any evidence we have. Unless you're trying to claim that just because someone has a degree in Physics, they're a qualified expert on every subject in physics. In that case, let's just get Stephen Hawking to tell us what the best memory type would be for PCs. Very true. I used to see Stephen Hawking in the cafeteria when I was doing my physics (Natural Sciences to be strictly accurate) degree. Strangely enough, he used to spend much of his time in the department of applied maths and theoretical physics and the institute of astronomy. Then there were the people who designed electronic things who were mostly in the electrical engineering department, although such things also went on in the Cavendish Laboratory where I was a student. Then again, some people designed computer architectures, but mostly they spent their time in the computer science department (where I did a postgraduate computer science diploma). So what is the point of all this? To support the proposition that heavy computer users are not necessarily the experts in how best they should be designed. Especially if they, or perhaps the reporters quoting them, have not read the most basic information about DRDRAM such as the widely published fact that it uses separate data and address buses. John