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To: Dave B who wrote (40384)	4/19/2000 6:15:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Dave, Re: since the typical applications are generally not bandwidth limited. Given that that's the case, you could still be using your 286 to type letters and get e-mail. I don't know what you are referring to. My computer has a more advanced memory: PC-100 CAS2 SDRAM, much faster that what my 286 had. And I have plenty of it: 384 MB. OTOH, by advancing the technology beyond "today's requirements", they've enabled desktop video, speech recognition, and a whole slew of new applications. All these work fine with $100 pe MB SDRAM just fine. When what I have is not enough, I will upgrade my computer. Technology will continue to advance, and large datastreams will grow to be more and more significant a part of the processing we do. Where will this datastream come from? Fast Ethernet? No: 10 MBs Ethernet? No: 1 MBs Internet? No, 0.2 KBs (T1) Hard disk? No, 40 MBs CD-ROM? No, 5 MBs DVD? Ditto. PC-100 SDRAM? 800 MBs RDRAM will be needed for those new applications. Let me know when these applications that will need RDRAM arrive. I don't know a single application for sale that needs RDRAM. In the meantime, I would have to be out of my mind to spend extra $3,000 to get RDRAM instead of SDRAM. Joe