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To: Robert Scott Diver who wrote (81383)	11/19/1998 5:02:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

A peek into Intel's 'roadmap' through 2000. Robert: Here is what is in store from Intel, I don't know what is/will be available from either IBM or SUNW so I can't speak for them.Anyway is this what you are looking for as far as information on Intel? =========================================================== .....'Foster's system bus to main memory will run at a blazing 3.2 gigabytes per second, compared to the 800-megabyte bandwidth allowed by Intel's current processors. That will allow two channels of Direct Rambus memory, Pollack said. Foster can be used in 2-way or 4-way servers using the Colusa chipset, he said. ... ebnews.com

To: Robert Scott Diver who wrote (81383)	11/19/1998 8:32:00 PM
From: K. M. Strickler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

RSD, >>Why would folks use NT on slow INTEL chips when greater speed ...<< I'm not really saying that here! When I started on computers, the computer room held 1 computer. One could walk in and 'lean' on the memory bank! Hell, the 'core' memory was in a 'frame' that was 5'x5' with supporting frames, each side 18" deep and 12 1/2 feet long! The 'adder' was a separate 'line up'! And on and on it went! Only the government could run this baby, a duplex computer system, 50,000 vacuum tubes and 120 consoles! Steady state load 3,000KW! We had 6 970 bhp diesels, of which 4 had to be online to run the system! By todays standards - let's see: Main memory - 64K (0-65,536) - 32+parity bit words Little memory - 4K (0-4095) - 32+parity bit words 6 Main and 6 Aux drums containing another 48K of storage Cycle time - 12 micro seconds! Main clock 1Mhz! I can remember that sucker could do 166,666 additions per second! Boy was I impressed! We watched 867,000 square miles of air space tracking all of the aircraft in the air at the time, and able to send fighter interceptors up at a moments notice! Today 450Mhz CPUs running 128M of RAM and a 13G Hard disk is standard! Future, when does 'fastest' cease to make a 'difference'? I submit, that except for the graphic intensive uses, we are just about there! JMHO Regards, Ken