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To: LastShadow who wrote (8527)	4/26/1998 10:45:00 AM
From: AlienTech	Respond to of 120523

>>I redesigned DEC's 2-layer wafer plant into a 7 layer wafer system for them when I worked for GE years ago, and the facility was only 9 months old at the time (that was in '83, I think). << Say what?? You just want to amaze me once a week right? >>The thing that absolutely befuddles me is why they don't take what they learned about on-chip and on-board cache and leverage that. << Cost and yield.. I think they had so much problems making the PPros that they decided to make seperate parts hence the PII type design. >>The one good thing that is going on is that there is now some standardization of components, and that will help the tier one suppliers tremendously. If you look at the 400 MHz HP, CPQ, and other major vendors systems, they are all using the same graphics cards, the same memory, the same system components.<< After how many years? I remember just 3 years ago even various HP machines used different kinds of ram chips, they looked the same but you can plug it in and it does nothing. But portables are still in the dark ages, even the hard drives are some times different enough that you have to make sure it will work with your system.. Maybe in another 10 or so years. >>Even the new 767 MHz Alpha station I am getting only has 3 memory slots - for which the most I can add is (3) 256 Mb chips - woefully inadequate without modifying the system.<< For whom? Some of us cant even count that high. And for the rest theres multi processor server configurations (that means you).