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In article <1989Oct24.215942.7756@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>Several people have expressed interest in this goodie, so herewith some
>details.  The paper is from IEEE Compcon Spring 1977, titled "Prospects
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>for the 64K RAM - an outline of the problem", by Paul R. Schroeder of
>Mostek.
> ...
>His conclusion is that 64Kb RAMs will experience long development delay
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>and a 32Kb RAM is probably viable as an intermediate stage.
>
>Commercial 64Kb RAMs were announced at about the same time as the paper
>was published, and were available a few months later.

Paul Schroeder was one of the founders of Inmos and I joined INMOS in
1979 and I remember the 64k DRAM saga. Fact is, Schroeder was basically
correct. I can't remember when the first parts were announced but when
I joined INMOS in September 1979 there was a pile of publicity about
INMOS being doomed because it had ALREADY missed the 64k DRAM boat.
However, the fact was that at that time 64k DRAMs were not really
available and working, I seem to recall that it was '81 or '82 until
they were really around.  (Incidentally, a similar thing happened with 
16k SRAMs, except this time INMOS actually got to market with things
very quickly and it was a long time before any competition appear.
Again, Intel had announced and `introduced' their 16 SRAM, but I recall
it being withdrawn soon after the INMOS SRAM was introduced).



 


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