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Date:      Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:55:51 +0100 (BST)
From:      Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>
To:        David Langford <langfod@dihelix.com>
Cc:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 430TX ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970414125432.1712C-100000@bagpuss.visint.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199704112024.KAA00588@caliban.dihelix.com>

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On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, David Langford wrote:
> What I really dont understand is why HP and ALR(?) seem to be the only
> folks doing memory busses larger than 64 bits wide. One would
> think that a 128bit 4-way interleaved motherboard would really help 
> the crappy memory performance of Intel CPU based systems.

How about most SGI machines ?
take a look at this:
http://www.sgi.com/Products/hardware/Power/challenge-xldata.html

It's got a 256bit wide memory bus.
I know I can't afford one though =)

Steve Roome
Technical Systems Manager, Vision Interactive Ltd.
E: steve@visint.co.uk      M: +44 (0) 976 241 342
T: +44 (0) 117 973 0597    F: +44 (0) 117 923 8522




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