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

To: Don Green who wrote (39132)	4/3/2000 1:08:00 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi Don Green; Isn't it a little late for April Fool's jokes??? Have some mercy. By the way, I decided to type up a short note on the transition from DRAM to SDRAM, why it happened when it did, and why not before or later. Too many people are acting like these things are brilliant ideas, while actually they are just the consequence of slowly changing ratios of various DRAM characteristics. In other words, if SDRAM had been available 5 years before, nobody would have used it, a synchronized DRAM would have provided worse performance than the previous variety. Most people are unaware of why this is, but, then again, most people don't design memory systems. Consequently, SDRAM (and DDR SDRAM) did not come upon the scene as "why didn't I think of that!" kind of surprises, they were instead the natural consequence of speed improvements in DRAM. And it is not completely unlikely that memory in the future may, once again, be manufactured without the synchronizing registers. But I haven't had the inclination yet, and all the yapping about RMBS inventing (or patenting) the basic idea of synchronous DRAM seems to have died away on the thread. -- Carl

To: Don Green who wrote (39132)	4/3/2000 1:11:00 AM
From: richard surckla	Respond to of 93625

Coach... Last sentence of post says, "April of next year. or the year after that." This is an April fools day post... shame on you O MIGHTY WISE ONE! Launch date has been provisionally announced for PlayStation3 -- believed to be some time close to the beginning of April next year, or the year after that.