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To: cordob who wrote (76287)	7/28/2001 8:38:31 AM
From: cordob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Sorry meant gerbet tapes of course. Cor

To: cordob who wrote (76287)	7/28/2001 6:38:17 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 93625

Hi cordob; I hope you realize that RSL channels really are only terminated at one end (the end away from the controller. If Rambus had terminated them at both ends, they'd have had to double the "read" output current from the RDRAM memory chips. As it is, they rely on the doubling of the signal when it reaches the (unterminated) controller end of the "transmission line". I'm guessing that it's largely the deviations from a perfect transmission line that forced Rambus to shorten the RSL channel from 4 RIMMs to 2 RIMMs. By the way, as long as I'm ragging on Rambus' engineering expertise, you may as well give a good long think on the fact that Rambus is having to go to a "4i" version of RDRAM in order to reduce costs. Remarkably, Rambus management later admitted that "if we knew then what we know now" they wouldn't of forced that particular error on industry. If Rambus'd had the engineering expertise of the memory makers, they would not of had to redesign their memory interface in order to make it cheaper to produce. But Rambus, being academic a$$holes, believed themselves geniuses in possession of all answers and ignored industry on this. The story is pretty much the same from beginning to end. A couple of impractical academics create massive problems for everybody else (and get rich off guys like richard surckla). -- Carl