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To: wily who wrote (180)	10/15/1999 8:30:00 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 271

Hi wily; I should have mentioned that the HardOCP link was from The Register. It's actually kind of amazing that so little has leaked out about exactly what is wrong with these things. Engineers sign NDAs, but they rarely obey them. Same applies to promises not to compete. They inevitably tell their buddies at other companies what is going on, human curiosity is something that cannot be easily overcome, and engineers are going to be fascinated by this. Worst case scenario is no fix ever. Actually, the worst case scenario is no fix ever, and, in addition, a very long time to determine that that is the case. When I say no fix, I don't mean to say that a fix would be impossible, only that the available fixes cost too much or reduce performance (bandwidth, or memory size) too much to be used. Another deal breaker would be a fix that would require scrapping current RDRAM chips. That would be a deal breaker because the many quarter delay implied would give DDR a lock. -- Carl