peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (06/07/88)
When I get depressed about DRAM prices, I just look up at the wall behind my terminal. Sitting in a nice bronze frame is a 256 kilobit CORE memory card. It probably cost a few thousand dollars, new. Thirty-odd dollars for 256 by 1 DRAMS doesn't seem quite like such an imposition after all. -- -- Peter da Silva, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. -- Phone: 713-274-5180. Remote UUCP: uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter.
dieter@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Dieter Muller) (06/20/88)
In article <870@.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >When I get depressed about DRAM prices, I just look up at the wall behind my >terminal. Sitting in a nice bronze frame is a 256 kilobit CORE memory card. >It probably cost a few thousand dollars, new. Thirty-odd dollars for 256 by >1 DRAMS doesn't seem quite like such an imposition after all. And I tend to think back to the good old days when I paid $300 for eight 4K x 1 bit DRAMs. Some how, I have trouble feeling great sympathy for people who feel they need several megabytes of memory. I have several programs on my venerable 6502 system that out-perform the big monster workstations, usually due to good algorithms -> tight, fast code. Even UNIX, that "small, fast" system, has a 550K kernel on our Sun 3/160. To think it used to fit into a PDP-11 w/ 64K.... I'll crawl back under my rock now. Dieter -- Welcome to the island. You are number six. ...cmcl2!lanl!unm-la!unmvax!nmtsun!dieter dieter%nmt@relay.cs.net <-- most likely to succeed dieter@nmtsun.nmt.edu