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To: TigerPaw who wrote (33564)	11/2/1999 1:20:00 AM
From: John Stichnoth	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

Thanks, Tiger. I just pulled the 1.6 out of thin air. My point goes to two generations ahead, eg., in 2 years. I remember when I and my (not yet) wife bought systems 10 years ago, I got a 286 and she got a 386sx. Both machines were the same speed when we bought them. Several years later, software was available for her machine that wouldn't run on mine. My machine was tossed before hers, needless to say. For the last couple of years, we've been able to buy overprocessors for 486 machines, to get them to run at Pentium speeds. There's been talk on this thread of migration path, and what companies will buy because they want a machine that will last as long as possible. So, we're faced with buying a machine. (The machine I'm working on now is 4 years old. At 133Mhz, it was top of the line when we bought it. I've upgraded the ram, but still have the 133 cpu in it.) My question is, will Rambus give me higher upside in my purchase this year? In a couple of years, maybe a 1 gig "Overdrive" processor? And 512Meg of RDRAM? (Are those more reasonable assumptions?) How will the performance of that machine compare with a DDR machine? Maybe Tench and Dan3 can weigh in on this? Best, JS

To: TigerPaw who wrote (33564)	11/2/1999 10:27:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Tiger Paw, I find that speed astounding because after at some point the signals radiate as radio waves and interfere with each other, but I figured that point was around 400Mhz and they seem to top that okay. EMI (electromagnetic interference) has been occurring and has had to be addressed all the way back to the Kilohertz days. There is no magic frequency above which there is any "step function" in difficult of shielding, preventing crosstalk, or anything. The high the frequencies, though, the smaller the gaps, or openings in chassis, cables, etc. that signals can "sneak through" and possibly cause problems. Intel has been one of the best in staying on top of EMI problems. I know this from industry experience, not as a stockholder in Intel. Tony