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- From: sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney)
- Subject: Re: CDs cheaper to make than cassettes?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.161333.18296@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Reply-To: sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney)
- Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
- References: <1992Nov18.125102.25706@news.columbia.edu> <1992Nov18.202016.24690@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:13:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.202016.24690@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >
- >Why is it due to the buss? You can only directly select 64K locations with
- >a 16 bit word. Multiply that by 8 bits (for 8 bit words) and you come up
- >to less than 1/2 meg as the direct limit. Of course, by indirect addressing,
- >you could address 64,000 pages of about 1/2 meg each or about 32000Meg of
- >memory.
- >
- >Bill
-
- Am I the only one to find it difficult to believe that the nonsense
- above was written by someone who knows how to work a computer? I'd put
- the guy right, only I have a suspicion he's "newbie trawling".
-
- Tony "used to build microcontrollers for money" Sweeney.
-