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To: dumbmoney who wrote (31480)	10/3/1999 1:10:00 AM
From: grok	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

RE: <The 1GB limit of the 840 is probably worse than the 512MB limit of the 820, given the target markets. The current 'workstation' chipset, the GX (which is just a minor tweak of the BX), supports 2GB with memory you can buy today. BX/GX support 4 DIMMs (8 memory banks), up to 32 SDRAMs per DIMM (registered DIMMs).> Yes, I agree. For the last two years my company has bought only 2GB workstations. RE: <It's weird that Rambus designed in a hard limit of 32, rather than letting the limit be set purely by electricals. Oh well, after last week I guess it doesn't matter.> I think that even Rambus could see that the electrical limit would be lower than the hard limit. That's one of the spinoff benefits of taking 16 bytes and muxing them down to 2 bytes in order to expand them back out to 8 bytes. (There I go with the sarcasm again.)