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- From: pauls@apple.com (Paul Sweazey)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: BUSES
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.191927.1181@pcnntp.apple.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 19:19:27 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.092211.18462@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- In article <1992Jul23.092211.18462@nuscc.nus.sg> eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg
- (TAN JIN MENG) writes:
- > With all this talk about current and future buses for desktop machines
- > (EISA, TurboChannel etc), a lot of concern seems to be on the speed of
- > the bus (as opposed to for example interrupt/device management or the
- > ability to use different speed devices efficiently).
- >
- > It seems to me that many if not most applications do not need
- (relatively
- > speaking) such a high bandwidth.
-
- Over the last decade or so processors, RAM, and disk storage have all
- increased in speed or capacity by two or three orders of magnitude. Where
- have buses gone during the same period? Not very far, not in real-world,
- affordable systems. This imbalance has turned modularity into a myth. If
- add-in hardware were both blindingly fast and incredibly cheap then
- modular computers might be a much more interesting market.
-
- Paul Sweazey
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