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To: Scumbria who wrote (28544)	2/15/2001 9:46:14 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"The fact that you can't supply all of the computer's DRAM requirements " While I have pushed the idea of extending the memory hierarchy to include something like this, I am not sure if Microsoft is really up to the task. I mean, look what they did with multi-threading and the memory management. Sure, the old supercomputer model of layers of memory starting with low density, high speed, high cost memory close to the processor(s), grading out to high density, lower speed, very low cost far away (right before you transition to the mass storage), and the OS moves stuff around to maximize throughput would be nice. But other than the Unices, what OS support would there be?