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- From: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk ()
- Subject: Re: Anyone has 486SX-25 and 386DX-40's SI and Landmark ratings?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.095639.8543@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
- Reply-To: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk ()
- Organization: INMOS Architecture Group
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 09:56:38 BST
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- in a recent reply i made an editing mistake and got an atrribution wrong
- which i've been asked to correct.
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- the atribution for:
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- >> I remember reading some years go about a factory in Japan that made
- >> RAM. The person who started it out was a manufacturer of ball bearings,
- >> of all things. His reasoning was making DRAM was much like making ball
- >> bearings - lots and lots of perfectly identical ball bearings with
- >> tiny identical etchings on them. The plant was almost totally auto-
- >> mated. If a machine broke it was lowered through the clean room floor
- >> to a service floor. Humans could walk down glass corridors but the
- >> machines themselves worked in absolutely dust free environments. Im-
- >> pressive. Wonder how well they did, because this was right before the
- >> DRAM glut. I suppose making a 256 Meg DRAM would pose interesting
- >> difficulties. Wonder how long it would be before they hit the market.
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- should have been attributed to Iskander Taib
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- sorry for any incovenience/confusion caused
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