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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (32259)10/17/1999 5:21:00 PM
From: John Walliker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93625
 
Tenchusatsu,


So in other words, future computers won't necessarily require less RDRAM. They'll just require fewer RDRAM chips, but each chip will be more densely packed anyway.


But what it does mean is that Rambus would have a big advantage over competing technologies because of granularity issues. In other words, with Rambus if you only need two memory chips then you only use two, whereas with 8-bit wide (DDR) SDRAM you would need to use 8 chips even if that gave much more memory than was needed.

John



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (32259)10/17/1999 5:51:00 PM
From: The Prophet  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93625
 
Thanks, Tenchusatsu. With respect to your last paragraph, should I assume then that even where a "dumb terminal" is used to run programs off of a remote server or similar platform, the dumb terminal still requires RAM in order to view and manipulate information? Or could there be a point where no RAM is required because the dumb terminal has become almost just a receiver of information?

Prophet


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