davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) (08/19/88)
Cringely's column in the Aug 18, 1988 InfoWorld has an interesting item
in with the usual babeling...
quoted without permission:
The only insanely great technology I know about that was anywhere even
close to Boston was in Oxford Connecticut, where a company called Oxford
Computer has developed dual-ported hybred memory that does its own
floating point conversions. It's damn the 68882's, full speed ahead;
we're talking about $120 worth of RAM that can do 40 *million* 3-D
vectors per second. When was the last time you wanted to do something
like that?
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Aside from my inclination to question 99.7% of anything in this
column, does anyone know anything about this? "hybred memory"?? Does any
of this represent existing technology, or even something which can be
done in a lab?
I usually read this column for entertainment, but this looks
interesting if it bears any relation to reality.
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bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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