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From: brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III)
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Subject: Re: Re: Corrigenda
Message-ID: <436@lll-crg.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 23:26:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  5 23:26:55 1985
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> In article <103@fred.UUCP> jmoore@fred.UUCP (Jim Moore) writes:
> >But addressing is not just for physical memory. Hardware people love
> >extra address lines for memory-mapped IO.
> 
> Oh, sure.  Let's add an extra address line for the I/O.  We really need
> over sixteen million I/O ports...
>   Let's be reasonable here.  For a single or small multi-user ( < 10 users)
> system, you don't really need piles and piles of memory.  If you have an
> application that needs more than 16 megabytes of memory, you probably don't
> have the processing power to run it in any reasonable time, anyway.  Can
> we get off this argument now?  If 16 megabytes isn't enough for you, simply
> shut up and go buy a Cray.
> 
> =====================================================================
> 	Curt Sampson		ihnp4!alberta!jeff
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> "It looked like something resembling white marble, which was probably
>  what is was: something resembling white marble."

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