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Started by Kurt Guntheroth
Mon, 25 Feb 1985 16:55
Re: Corrigenda
Author: Kurt Guntheroth
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 1985 16:55
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 1985 16:55
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I wonder just how limiting a 24 bit address space is anyway. Our vaxes got
along quite well with 2 Mb running 4.1 Although they have more now we are
running 4.2, it is only 3 or 4 Mb. 16 Mb seems like quite a lot of memory.
Now I don't want to get labelled as a person who cannot see the future (why
go to CRT's when punch cards work so well, etc.) but I don't see any strong
need for more than about 4-8 Mb in the near future. I also believe that the
current generation of processors will probably run out of steam compared to
whatever is under development before they exhaust their address space.
If there is somebody who plans now to use more than 24 bits of contiguous
RAM addresses, I'd be interested to hear his story.
--
Kurt Guntheroth
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
{uw-beaver,decvax!microsof,ucbvax!lbl-csam,allegra,ssc-vax}!fluke!kurt
Re: Corrigenda
Author: Phil Ngai
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1985 08:20
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1985 08:20
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> Now I don't want to get labelled as a person who cannot see the future (why
> go to CRT's when punch cards work so well, etc.) but I don't see any strong
> need for more than about 4-8 Mb in the near future. I also believe that the
Need is only part of it. Affordability is also important. As 256Kb RAMs
and 1Mb RAMs go down in price, you will see more and more 16 Mbyte and
bigger systems. You don't think people will drop in 16 1Mb chips and
say "I'm happy with 2 Mbytes", do you? Nah, they'll put in 64 or 128.
People buy as much memory as they can afford. Then they figure out what
to do with it.
--
Why, that's more useless than the left thumb of a touch typist!
Phil Ngai (408) 749-5720
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Re: Corrigenda
Author: jack
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1985 14:00
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1985 14:00
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>People buy as much memory as they can afford. Then they figure out what
>to do with it.
Nono. *UCB* buys as much memory as they can afford,
then make sure that 4.7BSD uses 80% of it, and then starts
distributing that:-)
--
Jack Jansen, {decvax|philabs|seismo}!mcvax!jack
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