Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site alberta.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!alberta!jeff From: jeff@alberta.UUCP (C. J. Sampson) Newsgroups: net.micro.16k Subject: Re: Corrigenda Message-ID: <422@alberta.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 19:26:46 EST Article-I.D.: alberta.422 Posted: Sun Mar 3 19:26:46 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 01:55:34 EST References: <983@watdcsu.UUCP> <2385@nsc.UUCP> <730@amdcad.UUCP> <2393@nsc.UUCP> <103@fred.UUCP> Reply-To: jeff@alberta.UUCP (C. J. Sampson) Organization: his Personal Computer Lines: 18 Summary: 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."