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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bilow who wrote (31308)	10/1/1999 1:08:00 AM
From: Jdaasoc	Respond to of 93625

bilow: Wrong again <<(2) The Nintendo is largely not user upgradeable, the PC has to be robust enough to allow the user to add other equipment, changing the noise environment. (3) The Nintendo memory is soldered into the mother board, the PC has to have memory that is replaceable by the user.>> There is video memory upgrade cartridge for N64. It costs about $30. It is about size of HP font cartridge. contains 8? MB of original RDRAM. I checked it out at Toysrus before buying RMBS stock last year. I had enough of you for tonight john

To: Bilow who wrote (31308)	10/1/1999 2:20:00 AM
From: grok	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

RE: <In short, the Nintendo Rambus usage was an example of good engineering. Putting Rambus into PCs was not a good idea.> Yes! I would like someone to explain why it is a good idea to read 16 bytes inside a dram and then mux them down to 2 bytes to ship them across a channel in order to expand them out again to a 64-bit bus. It is time for the world to finally acknowledge that Rambus was founded in about 1990 on a belief that severe granularity problems would soon hit the computer industry but there is still no sign of it actually happening and, in fact, it may never happen.