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To: Dave B who wrote (51402)	8/27/2000 11:27:09 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 93625

Dave, to attempt to scare people by saying that it would now support SDRAM is a serious offense Were all those P4-Rambus only posts equally as serious? How about the claims that DRDRAM beats PC133? Scumbria

To: Dave B who wrote (51402)	8/27/2000 12:01:44 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Re: 75% of all workstations use RDRAM ... No, they don't. 0% of all mid range and high end workstations use RDRAM - they are all UNIX boxes that use Sparc, Alpha, PA-Risc, or quad processor Xeon processors. Some fraction of the low end boxes use RDRAM, but it is far less than 75% of that subset. Workstations need a lot of memory, and RDRAM memory in a system is very expensive, limits expandability, and doesn't help performance. It is a bad choice for a workstation, and that's why it isn't chosen very often. For a while, Intel was forcing some segments of the workstation market to use RDRAM, but recent chipset changes are removing the crutch that was supporting what little progress Rambus was making in the area. Dan