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To: Dave B who wrote (45128)	6/19/2000 8:11:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Dave, You don't see the conflict in your statements? If it can't be engineered around, I'd think it could hardly be called trivial. It would seem to me to be a tremendous breakthrough on Rambus's part if they were the first to come up with the only way that exists to solve this problem. OTOH, if it's a trivial problem to solve, then there are probably 50 or 100 other ways to solve it. Get cracking. I'll bet you could license it for .5% and the DRAM companies would come running! I was wrong about there not being a way to engineer around the problem. Someone pointed out that the control register could be moved to the memory controller from the DRAM device, by adding a wire between the two. The fact that something is simple does not mean it is avoidable or replaceable. A car door is an obvious invention for getting people in and out of a car. Can you think of another way to do it besides a door? That is about the same level as this patent. From my viewpoint, it is fundamental, simple, and obvious. Scumbria