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To: Scumbria who wrote (114168)	6/4/2000 10:31:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575835

Scumbria, Yes. DRAM needs many complicated functions (precharge, RAS, CAS, refresh) to maintain and deliver data. SRAM only requires simple reads and writes, and the data remains available as long as the power is kept on So, if you had a 2 or 3ns nonvolatile (i.e., static) main memory (that was dense and cheap to make), it would be the same as having an all-SRAM main memory? How much would this improve overall performance? wily