From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 17 02:35:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA02248 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 02:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA02219 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 02:35:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA00298; Fri, 17 May 1996 12:38:08 +0300 Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 12:38:08 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" cc: "Serge A. Babkin" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EDO & Memory latency In-Reply-To: <199605170540.WAA15791@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 16 May 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > > >And I am (like others might) having the dreams of SRAM-only computer, no > >matter how one with more/faster processors + ordinary memory might perform. > > Then you must be a lot richer than I am! ;-) No, I am actually quite convinced in the opposite. They are just dreams where the processors don't have to wait and wait and wait... And quite unprobable to go this way. As a matter of fact, am I too wrong in thinking that the caches of the 486 were 30ns or something? Watch out for something big to replace their 486 for Pentiums and you may have a gold mine just next to you... Alas, there is nothing matching that description near me (Getting a motherboard for them is another story). > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com > --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- > NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, > Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... > NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... > > Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. > If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sander