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To: NightOwl who wrote (68632)	3/20/2001 10:45:42 PM
From: froland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

NightOwl: There are a lot of knowledgeable Apple, OS2 and Beta lovers out there who endlessly toutet the beauty of the technology they championed while relentlessly trashing competing technologies. However, the market place just didn't seem to hear their complaints. There's more to a technologies market acceptance than its technical elegance... or lack of it. froland.

To: NightOwl who wrote (68632)	3/21/2001 10:17:48 AM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Owl, re: Bias If your expertise is memory technology, I would hope for an unbiased comparison of competing technologies. When PIII/i820 was first benchmarked it provided disappointing performance. The conclusion was DRDRAM is DEAD, DEAD, DEAD. But it was Scumbria that correctly pointed out, (almost a year ago), that DDRSDRAM would show similar results on a PIII. (His evaluation of the constraints of the FSB). So from a performance standpoint, both new technologies were impacted by CPU/Controller interface, not the memory technology. And early benchmarks indicate that PIII with DDR isn't going to provide much improvement over PIII/PC133, for the reasons Scumbria expressed. When the P4 comes out with a DDR controller, we'll see a more realistic comparison of DRDRAM/DDRSDRAM on a common platform. I suspect that we'll see P4/DRDRAM performing better, but at much higher cost. (Assuming that DDR is only single channel). JMO's