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To: Bilow who wrote (30591)	9/24/1999 9:22:00 PM
From: KM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

So, will the game eventually kill the hunter?

To: Bilow who wrote (30591)	9/24/1999 9:41:00 PM
From: richard surckla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Bilow: >>This is what Rambus has not done.<< From what I have been reading since 6pm or so, in numerous places, is that Rambus has done it right and the problem lies elsewhere, with Intel, Dell, etc.

To: Bilow who wrote (30591)	9/24/1999 9:59:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Carl, dear Carl, you got your infinites mixed up, aleph zero is the number of rational numbers between 98 and 102, aleph 1 is the number of real numbers between 98 and 102. There is a theorem (the Cantor Theorem) that states that the number of infinities (each being greater than the prior one) is itself aleph 0, but no one has come up yet with an example of aleph 2, and certainly not aleph 3, as far as I am aware of. Zeev

To: Bilow who wrote (30591)	9/24/1999 11:43:00 PM
From: grok	Respond to of 93625

Neat post, Carl. I heard that Rambus tried to hire God to debug Rdram but he refused on grounds that nature always provides the simplest solution so he wanted to redesign Rdram to have 16 data pins so four chips could work in parallel to form a 64-bit data bus but Geoff Tate refused.

To: Bilow who wrote (30591)	9/25/1999 4:18:00 AM
From: J_W	Respond to of 93625

Life is an incredibly strong force, and to hunt down every bug and kill it is what makes engineering a difficult thing. All living things guard their life with defenses, that is a consequence of evolution, and the defense best used by computer bugs is complexity. The safest and easiest way to avoid bugs in designs is to make sure that there is sufficient margin that the bugs are unable to squeeze through the cracks in the (hopelessly finite and human-error prone) simulations. This is what Rambus has not done. Carl, I take it you have never won any 25 words or less contests. <g> In other words we now have "The glitch that stole Rambus Christmas" Jim