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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: CDs cheaper to make than cassettes?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.093843.21000@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Nov20.161333.18296@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 09:38:43 GMT
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- sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney) writes:
- : 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".
-
- Hm, you are rigth - it is not correct. When is the time I wrote it - probably
- about 1 or 2 am. Drop out the bit about the 8 bits, and the reference to
- 1/2 meg and things are better, but still not perfect.
-
- Of course, the chip does not use 16 address lines, so the discussion is
- really irrelevant.
-
- Bill
-