Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/28/84; site lll-crg.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!brooks From: brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III) Newsgroups: net.micro.16k Subject: Re: Re: Corrigenda Message-ID: <436@lll-crg.ARPA> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 23:26:55 EST Article-I.D.: lll-crg.436 Posted: Tue Mar 5 23:26:55 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 19:27:28 EST References: <983@watdcsu.UUCP> <2385@nsc.UUCP> <730@amdcad.UUCP> <2393@nsc.UUCP> <103@fred.UUCP> <422@alberta.UUCP> Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG group Lines: 21 > 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." If it looks like a TURKEY, walks like a TURKEY and gobbles like a TURKEY then it must be a TURKEY!