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To: Ian Anderson who wrote (39899)	4/14/2000 12:42:00 PM
From: Estephen	Respond to of 93625

I would never buy a PC133 or DDR system Neither will any fortune 500 companies. I've already spoken to what I know about current pc buying specs and I probably shouldn't have. However, I can't imagine any first line company taking the risk of buying an off brand, non-standard mutation like ddr of pc133 for their corporation. World class companies stick strickly with name brand world leaders like intel, dell, ibm etc. Microns ddr and pc 133 will be a good fix for joes garage. Save 10 bucks on the purchase price.!!!!!!!!

To: Ian Anderson who wrote (39899)	4/15/2000 11:23:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Ian, <Controlled impedance is .. the *only* way..to get signal integrity and low EMI at high speeds.> Are you sure about this? "Only" is a pretty strong word. Maybe the "way" itself is wrong? I mean the combination "high frequency" and "bus"? Now, you wrote: <I would never buy a PC133 or DDR system. Unless it is slugged to run slow, it will only work when the wind is behind it, or in exactly the configuration that the manufacturer tested and qualified. The margins are just too tight, there is too much variation in capacitive load on the memory controller dependent on the number of DIMMs fitted. Did you know that even to get PC100 to work with the BX chipsets the BIOS has to change the signal drive strengths according to what number and type of DIMMS are fitted.> Don't you think that the above is a perfect description of the Rambus problem in PC? Is not it what Dell is "qualifying" and having "some" bizarre problems? And about programmable drive strength, read what your fellow-countryman wrote in: Message 13435427 :) :) <Rambus have designed something much cleaner, much more predictable.> In theory. You forgot to add this excuse. <DDR is dead, dead, dead> I'm really sorry about your Rambus technology. - Ali