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In article <68457@cup.portal.com> drchip@cup.portal.com (MYRON A LIEBERMAN) writes:
>15ns DRAMs
>
>Where do you propose to obtain 15ns DRAMs? Until recently the fastest made
>was a 53ns DRAM manufactured by NMB Semiconductor. Last year several
>companies have announced the development of 40ns DRAMs, but that would
>appear to be the fastest. While 15ns SRAM is readily available, the need
>for refresh makes DRAMs more challenging to produce at low access times.

Speaking of which.  My first computer used SRAM because it was easy to
implement, and inherently faster (no refresh).  My question is why no
one makes a Generic 386/486 that doesn't USE dram at all, but only SRAM.
How come we don't have SRAM SIMM?  You should be able to buy SRAM at
about 4 times the cost of DRAM.  That means you could get a dramatic
performance boost for the expense of some extra money in RAM. <sigh>.
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